Subject: [PATCH] This patch decreases the IPMI message transaction time in Interrupt mode --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I have done this time is to directly call the handler This patch considerably decreases the IPMI transaction time (cuts off ~9ms for a single ipmitool transaction). Signed-off-by: Srinivas_Gowda --- diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 9397ab4..5d1e0ca 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -932,8 +932,10 @@ static void sender(void *send_info, spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->msg_lock, flags); spin_lock_irqsave(&smi_info->si_lock, flags); - if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL) + if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL) { start_next_msg(smi_info); + smi_event_handler(smi_info, 0); + } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->si_lock, flags); }