Time time taken for a single cpu online operation on a pseries machine
is as follows:
Dedicated LPAR (POWER6): ~220ms.
Shared LPAR (POWER5) : ~240ms.
Of this time, approximately 200ms is taken up by __cpu_up(). This is because
we poll every 200ms to check if the new cpu has notified it's
The code needs testing on other powerpc platforms.
I think given the numbers you showed this is a good improvement, and it
clearly can't do any harm on platforms that implement msleep correctly.
For what it's worth:
Acked-by: Joel Schopp jsch...@austin.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Gautham R
