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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: [PATCH] ipmi_si_intf: use usleep_range() instead of busy looping
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 14:06:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190709210643.GJ657710@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)

ipmi_thread() uses back-to-back schedule() to poll for command
completion which, on some machines, can push up CPU consumption and
heavily tax the scheduler locks leading to noticeable overall
performance degradation.

This patch replaces schedule() with usleep_range(100, 200).  This
allows the sensor readings to finish resonably fast and the cpu
consumption of the kthread is kept under several percents of a core.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index f124a2d2bb9f..2143e3c10623 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ static int ipmi_thread(void *data)
 		if (smi_result == SI_SM_CALL_WITHOUT_DELAY)
 			; /* do nothing */
 		else if (smi_result == SI_SM_CALL_WITH_DELAY && busy_wait)
-			schedule();
+			usleep_range(100, 200);
 		else if (smi_result == SI_SM_IDLE) {
 			if (atomic_read(&smi_info->need_watch)) {
 				schedule_timeout_interruptible(100);

             reply	other threads:[~2019-07-09 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-09 21:06 Tejun Heo [this message]
2019-07-09 21:46 ` [PATCH] ipmi_si_intf: use usleep_range() instead of busy looping Corey Minyard
2019-07-09 22:09   ` Tejun Heo
2019-07-09 23:01     ` Corey Minyard
2019-07-10 14:22       ` Tejun Heo
2019-07-10 20:11         ` Corey Minyard
2019-08-01 17:40         ` Corey Minyard
2019-08-05 18:18           ` Tejun Heo
2019-08-05 21:18             ` Corey Minyard
2019-08-07 18:27               ` Tejun Heo
2019-07-09 22:11   ` Tejun Heo
2019-07-09 23:07     ` [Openipmi-developer] " Corey Minyard
2019-07-10 14:12       ` Tejun Heo

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