On Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:17 am Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Accessing the VPD area can take a long time. The existing > VPD access code fails consistently on my hardware. There are comments > in the SysKonnect vendor driver that it can take up to 13ms per word. > > Change the access routines to: > * use a mutex rather than spinning with IRQ's disabled and lock held > * have a much longer timeout > * call cond_resched while spinning > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied this series to my linux-next branch, thanks Stephen. Should be included in my 2.6.29 pull request barring any problems. -- Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
