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authorBryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org>2015-09-23 09:31:32 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>2015-09-23 12:46:16 -0700
commit42d7f7e884fcce78301ca88da3434f0fcbf3fee5 (patch)
tree11bacc4b8754c2015c85b2977762f242e18fbd34 /drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
parentf01f7a9851f9c75467373ba7797394dba91825da (diff)
greybus: loopback: masked out threads should sleep
If a thread is masked out it should not consume CPU cycles during a test. We set an arbitrary 100 millisecond sleep time for each masked out thread. Reasonably blunt instrument to ensure threads with nothing to do don't end up thrashing the acquisition/release of mutexes. Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Patrick Titiano <ptitiano@baylibre.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
index 3151876a717c..764ee83df082 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
@@ -693,8 +693,10 @@ static int gb_loopback_fn(void *data)
break;
mutex_lock(&gb_dev.mutex);
- if (!gb_loopback_active(gb))
+ if (!gb_loopback_active(gb)) {
+ ms_wait = 100;
goto unlock_continue;
+ }
if (gb_dev.iteration_max) {
/* Determine overall lowest count */
low_count = gb->iteration_count;