The kthread used to speed up polling for IPMI was using udelay
when the lower-level state machine told it to do a short delay.
This just used CPU and didn't help scheduling, thus causing bad
problems with other tasks. Call schedule() instead.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ linux-2.6.17/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static int ipmi_thread(void *data)
/* do nothing */
}
else if (smi_result == SI_SM_CALL_WITH_DELAY)
- udelay(1);
+ schedule();
else
schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);
}
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