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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2006-06-15 14:11:22 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-06-21 15:01:33 +1000
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[POWERPC] Fix mdelay badness on shared processor partitions
On partitioned PPC64 systems where a partition is given 1/10 of a processor, we have seen mdelay() delaying for 10 times longer than it should. The reason is that the generic mdelay(n) does n delays of 1 millisecond each. However, with 1/10 of a processor, we only get a one-millisecond timeslice every 10ms. Thus each 1 millisecond delay loop ends up taking 10ms elapsed time. The solution is just to use the PPC64 udelay function, which uses the timebase to ensure that the delay is based on elapsed time rather than how much processing time the partition has been given. (Yes, the generic mdelay uses the PPC64 udelay, but the problem is that the start time gets reset every millisecond, and each time it gets reset we lose another 9ms.) Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/delay.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/delay.h5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/delay.h b/include/linux/delay.h
index acb74865b973..17ddb55430ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/delay.h
+++ b/include/linux/delay.h
@@ -25,10 +25,7 @@ extern unsigned long loops_per_jiffy;
#define MAX_UDELAY_MS 5
#endif
-#ifdef notdef
-#define mdelay(n) (\
- {unsigned long __ms=(n); while (__ms--) udelay(1000);})
-#else
+#ifndef mdelay
#define mdelay(n) (\
(__builtin_constant_p(n) && (n)<=MAX_UDELAY_MS) ? udelay((n)*1000) : \
({unsigned long __ms=(n); while (__ms--) udelay(1000);}))