Commit ddac44b7 authored May 26, 2010 by Corey Minyard Committed by Linus Torvalds May 27, 2010

ipmi: change timeout and event poll to one second



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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 06ee4594

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c

+2 −2

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		@@ -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)