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Message-ID: <20190710141200.GN657710@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:12:00 -0700
From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
Cc: openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, kernel-team@...com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] ipmi_si_intf: use usleep_range()
instead of busy looping
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.
--
tejun
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