Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 03 May 2010 08:38:35 -0500 | From | Corey Minyard <> | Subject | [PATCH 8/8] ipmi: Change timeout and event poll to one second |
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From: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
The timeouts in IPMI are in the 1-5 second range in message handling, so a 1 second timeout is a reasonable thing to do. This should help with reducing power consumption on idle systems.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> ---
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c @@ -4037,8 +4037,8 @@ static void ipmi_request_event(void) static struct timer_list ipmi_timer; -/* Call every ~100 ms. */ -#define IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME 100 +/* Call every ~1000 ms. */ +#define IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME 1000 /* How many jiffies does it take to get to the timeout time. */ #define IPMI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES ((IPMI_TIMEOUT_TIME * HZ) / 1000)
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