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H A Dipmi_si_intf.cdiff ae74e823cb7d4cd476f623fce9a38f625f6c09a8 Wed Mar 10 17:23:06 CST 2010 Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com> ipmi: add parameter to limit CPU usage in kipmid

In some cases kipmid can use a lot of CPU. This adds a way to tune the
CPU used by kipmid to help in those cases. By setting kipmid_max_busy_us
to a value between 100 and 500, it is possible to bring down kipmid CPU
load to practically 0 without loosing too much ipmi throughput
performance. Not setting the value, or setting the value to zero,
operation is unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>