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| author | Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> | 2009-10-22 20:20:16 +0200 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-11-04 18:44:45 -0500 |
| commit | 3d76e82c9538d8104e578ca460d35f214bfddfd3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0c12376c51edd564d8e6dec453e8678750b76aa8 /drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c | |
| parent | 32060e1b64f23fe315a35d2df8c2c7ad010df73e (diff) | |
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mwl8k: use cond_resched() when loading firmware blocks
Since each firmware block takes on the order of several hundred usec
to upload to the hardware, using msleep in the inner loop would make
the firmware loading process take a lot more time than just doing
busy-waiting like we do now. But if we keep the busy-waiting, we can
at least add a cond_resched() to the inner loop so that we give other
tasks a chance to run while the firmware is being loaded.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c index fcf7139c77c8..496d3c5097d5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> +#include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/list.h> #include <linux/pci.h> @@ -428,6 +429,7 @@ mwl8k_send_fw_load_cmd(struct mwl8k_priv *priv, void *data, int length) break; } + cond_resched(); udelay(1); } while (--loops); |
