Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:56:49 -0500 | From | Matt Domsch <> | Subject | Re: [Openipmi-developer] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1, ipmi_si |
| |
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 09:03:12AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: > Peter, can you make a code change for me and try something out? > > If possible, could you change the call to udelay(1) in the function > ipmi_thread() in drivers/char/ipmi_si_intf.c to be a call to schedule() > instead? I'm guessing that will fix this problem.
won't that cause the thread to be scheduled out for at least one timer tick (1-10ms depending on HZ), especially as it's at nice 19? This will cause the commands to be quite slow, which was the primary reason for the kthread here in the first place.
Thanks, Matt
-- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |