s390/cio: Relax subchannel scan loop

The CIO layer scans for newly available I/O devices by performing a scan
of available subchannels using the Store Subchannel (STSCH) instruction.
This processing can take a significant amount of time during which no
other task can run on the same CPU (unless CONFIG_PREEMPT has been
enabled). As a result, scheduling latencies for other tasks are
increased noticeably, especially on a single-CPU system.

Fix this problem by explicitly allowing other tasks to be scheduled
each time a subchannel has been processed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Ott <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/css.c b/drivers/s390/cio/css.c
index 8c2cb87bccc5d8b1a195ff1dc43181309aa75d82..c1f9cc728c2dbf85d18342ed093b024635bf36aa 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/s390/cio/css.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/cio/css.c
@@ -553,6 +553,9 @@ static int slow_eval_unknown_fn(struct subchannel_id schid, void *data)
                default:
                        rc = 0;
                }
+               /* Allow scheduling here since the containing loop might
+                * take a while.  */
+               cond_resched();
        }
        return rc;
 }