Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:13:59 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] IPMI: Add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmid |
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On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:49:07 -0600 Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hi Corey, Linus, > > > > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 05:14:38 pm Corey Minyard wrote: > > > >> From: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com> > >> > >> In some cases kipmid can use a lot of CPU. This adds a way to tune > >> the CPU used by kipmid to help in those cases. By setting > >> kipmid_max_busy_us to a value between 100 and 500, it is possible to > >> bring down kipmid CPU load to practically 0 without loosing too much > >> ipmi throughput performance. Not setting the value, or setting the > >> value to zero, operation is unaffected. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com> > >> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> > >> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> > >> --- > >> This patch has been discussed quite a bit, and I believe all issues with it > >> have been resolved. It's not great, but nobody has a better way to handle > >> the problem. > >> > > > > I still can't see this patch in Linus' tree as of 2.6.34-rc1. It has been > > waiting for sooo long already, can we finally get it in? Linus, will you apply > > it? Or should it go through Andrew? > > > It's already in Andrew's patches. It would be good if this could go in > for 2.6.34, I think it has been through enough review and such.
yup, I have it queued for 2.6.34. -rc1 caught me napping so some scrambling is happening.
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