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mwl8k: use cond_resched() when loading firmware blocks

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Since each firmware block takes on the order of several hundred usec
to upload to the hardware, using msleep in the inner loop would make
the firmware loading process take a lot more time than just doing
busy-waiting like we do now.  But if we keep the busy-waiting, we can
at least add a cond_resched() to the inner loop so that we give other
tasks a chance to run while the firmware is being loaded.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Lennert Buytenhek 2009-10-22 20:20:16 +02:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 32060e1b64
commit 3d76e82c95
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@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/pci.h>
@ -428,6 +429,7 @@ mwl8k_send_fw_load_cmd(struct mwl8k_priv *priv, void *data, int length)
break;
}
cond_resched();
udelay(1);
} while (--loops);