Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] ipmi_si_intf: use usleep_range() instead of busy looping

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Corey.

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 06:07:03PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> I believe the change was 33979734cd35ae "IPMI: use schedule in kthread"
> The original change that added the kthread was a9a2c44ff0a1350
> "ipmi: add timer thread".
> 
> I mis-remembered this, we switched from doing a udelay() to
> schedule(), but that udelay was 1us, so that's probably not helpful
> information.

I see, so it went from non-yielding busy looping to an yiedling one.
And, yeah, udelay(1) isn't much of a data point.

Thanks.

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tejun