Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread

From: Matt Domsch
Date: Mon Jun 26 2006 - 11:03:32 EST


On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:08:19AM -0500, @ wrote:
> The kthread used to speed up polling for IPMI was using udelay
> when the lower-level state machine told it to do a short delay.
> This just used CPU and didn't help scheduling, thus causing bad
> problems with other tasks. Call schedule() instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx>

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