linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] IPMI: Add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmid

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Message-Id: <201001141502.18720.jdelvare@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:02:18 +0100
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	minyard@....org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@...fujitsu.com>,
	OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPMI: Add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmid

Le samedi 19 décembre 2009 14:56, Jean Delvare a écrit :
> Le jeudi 17 décembre 2009 23:08, Corey Minyard a écrit :
> > I cleaned up the patch some.  I added some state results to the list of
> > things to be busy waited for (should improve performance a bit) and
> > changed the schedule_timeout_interruptible back to 1, since that's
> > what it's supposed to be.  And I added some comments.
> 
> Thanks for doing this!
> 
> > I did some testing on my system here.  On my system, kipmid uses almost
> > no CPU normally.  If I set the kipmid_max_busy_us value to 500, the
> > interface was more than 5 times slower.  I had to set the value up to
> > 35000 for it to go back to the normal performance, and it was pretty
> > linear between the two values.  So this is definiately not for all
> > systems.
> > 
> > Can you try this out to make sure its ok?
> 
> I don't have any hardware where I can test this myself. But hopefully
> Martin does?

I've had the latest version of this patch tested by one of my
colleagues who has access to the relevant hardware, results are OK.
So I think we're ready to go, can we finally have this patch pushed
upstream?

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3
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