x86: clean up smpboot.c's use of udelay+schedule

From 9f8dd2b15ff19ad73ee0eb235b4fdde9277185e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:38:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] x86: clean up smpboot.c's use of udelay+schedule

smpboot.c does a udelay() followed by a schedule(); to yield
the CPU to other threads. This comes from the time when the kernel
did not yet have usleep_*() style APIs...

... nowadays, the kernel can do better than this, and this
patch replaces this code sequence with a usleep_range(),
so that the CPU is actually yielded for some real time.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>

arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 66d250c..0b794c6 100644
a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -781,14 +781,13 @@ do_rest:
for (timeout = 0; timeout < 50000; timeout++) {
if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_callin_mask))
break; /* It has booted */
- udelay(100);
/*
* Allow other tasks to run while we wait for the
* AP to come online. This also gives a chance
* for the MTRR work(triggered by the AP coming online)
* to be completed in the stop machine context.
*/
- schedule();
+ usleep_range(100, 200);
}

if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_callin_mask))
1.7.6.4



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