Re: [Openipmi-developer] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1, ipmi_si

[Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>]

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

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