[PATCH 1/3] drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c: Replacing yield() with a betteralternative

From: Amol Lad
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 08:51:48 EST


In 2.6, the semantics of calling yield() changed from "sleep for a
bit" to "I really don't want to run for a while". This matches POSIX
better, but there's a lot of drivers still using yield() when they mean
cond_resched(), schedule() or even schedule_timeout().

For this driver cond_resched() seems to be a better
alternative

Tested compile only

Signed-off-by: Amol Lad <amol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.19-rc1-orig/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.19-rc1-orig/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c linux-2.6.19-rc1/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c
--- linux-2.6.19-rc1-orig/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c 2006-09-21 10:15:39.000000000 +0530
+++ linux-2.6.19-rc1/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c 2006-10-11 17:57:02.000000000 +0530
@@ -2268,7 +2268,7 @@ static int __ibmmca_host_reset(Scsi_Cmnd
if (!(inb(IM_STAT_REG(host_index)) & IM_BUSY))
break;
spin_unlock_irq(shpnt->host_lock);
- yield();
+ cond_resched();
spin_lock_irq(shpnt->host_lock);
}
/*write registers and enable system interrupts */


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