linux-kernel - [PATCH] soc/qman: Sleep instead of stuck hacking jiffies.

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Message-Id: <1498403622-2878-1-git-send-email-karim.eshapa@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Jun 2017 17:13:42 +0200
From:   Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@...il.com>
To:     oss@...error.net
Cc:     claudiu.manoil@....com, roy.pledge@....com,
        colin.king@...onical.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] soc/qman: Sleep instead of stuck hacking jiffies.

Use msleep() instead of stucking with
long delay will be more efficient.

Signed-off-by: Karim Eshapa <karim.eshapa@...il.com>
---
 drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c b/drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c
index 3d891db..18d391e 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/fsl/qbman/qman.c
@@ -1084,11 +1084,7 @@ static int drain_mr_fqrni(struct qm_portal *p)
 		 * entries well before the ring has been fully consumed, so
 		 * we're being *really* paranoid here.
 		 */
-		u64 now, then = jiffies;
-
-		do {
-			now = jiffies;
-		} while ((then + 10000) > now);
+		msleep(1);
 		msg = qm_mr_current(p);
 		if (!msg)
 			return 0;
-- 
2.7.4