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Subject: ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
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ipmi-decreases-the-ipmi-message-transaction-time-in-interrupt-mode.patch
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From: Srinivas_Gowda <srinivas_g_gowda@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
Call the event handler immediately after starting the next message.
This change considerably decreases the IPMI transaction time (cuts off
~9ms for a single ipmitool transaction).
Signed-off-by: Srinivas_Gowda <srinivas_g_gowda@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c~ipmi-decreases-the-ipmi-message-transaction-time-in-interrupt-mode drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c~ipmi-decreases-the-ipmi-message-transaction-time-in-interrupt-mode
+++ a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -932,8 +932,10 @@ static void sender(void *
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->msg_lock, flags);
spin_lock_irqsave(&smi_info->si_lock, flags);
- if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL)
+ if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL) {
start_next_msg(smi_info);
+ smi_event_handler(smi_info, 0);
+ }
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->si_lock, flags);
}
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Subject: Subject: ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode
Patches currently in -mm which might be from srinivas_g_gowda@xxxxxxxx are
ipmi-decreases-the-ipmi-message-transaction-time-in-interrupt-mode.patch
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