ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode

Call the event handler immediately after starting the next message.

This change considerably decreases the IPMI transaction time (cuts off
~9ms for a single ipmitool transaction).

Signed-off-by: Srinivas_Gowda <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 50fcf9c04569a18007816dc322382103a604c542..73ebbb1a3269c3f2ef8e5380ba5800778fd74fef 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -932,8 +932,10 @@ static void sender(void                *send_info,
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->msg_lock, flags);
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&smi_info->si_lock, flags);
-       if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL)
+       if (smi_info->si_state == SI_NORMAL && smi_info->curr_msg == NULL) {
                start_next_msg(smi_info);
+               smi_event_handler(smi_info, 0);
+       }
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&smi_info->si_lock, flags);
 }