netdev - [PATCH net-next 4/4] ice: sleep, don't busy-wait, in the SQ send retry loop

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Message-Id: <20230401172659.38508-5-mschmidt@redhat.com>
Date:   Sat,  1 Apr 2023 19:26:59 +0200
From:   Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
To:     intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
        Michal Michalik <michal.michalik@...el.com>,
        Arkadiusz Kubalewski <arkadiusz.kubalewski@...el.com>,
        Karol Kolacinski <karol.kolacinski@...el.com>,
        Petr Oros <poros@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 4/4] ice: sleep, don't busy-wait, in the SQ send retry loop

10 ms is a lot of time to spend busy-waiting. Sleeping is clearly
allowed here, because we have just returned from ice_sq_send_cmd(),
which takes a mutex.

On kernels with HZ=100, this msleep may be twice as long, but I don't
think it matters.
I did not actually observe any retries happening here.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
index 539b756f227c..438367322bcd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_common.c
@@ -1643,7 +1643,7 @@ ice_sq_send_cmd_retry(struct ice_hw *hw, struct ice_ctl_q_info *cq,
 
 		memcpy(desc, &desc_cpy, sizeof(desc_cpy));
 
-		mdelay(ICE_SQ_SEND_DELAY_TIME_MS);
+		msleep(ICE_SQ_SEND_DELAY_TIME_MS);
 
 	} while (++idx < ICE_SQ_SEND_MAX_EXECUTE);
 
-- 
2.39.2