ipmi: change timeout and event poll to one second
authorCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 21:43:50 +0000 (14:43 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 27 May 2010 16:12:50 +0000 (09:12 -0700)
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>
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c

index c6ad423..5de4bb9 100644 (file)
@@ -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)