sfc: Fix polling for slow MCDI operations
authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:34:25 +0000 (04:34 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:12:47 +0000 (17:12 -0800)
When the interface is down and we are using polled mode for MCDI
operations, we busy-wait for completion for approximately 1 jiffy
using udelay() and then back off to schedule().  But the completion
will not wake the task, since we are using polled mode!  We must use
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() instead.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/sfc/mcdi.c

index 683353b..0d4eba7 100644 (file)
@@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ static int efx_mcdi_poll(struct efx_nic *efx)
                if (spins != 0) {
                        --spins;
                        udelay(1);
-               } else
-                       schedule();
+               } else {
+                       schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
+               }
 
                time = get_seconds();