s390/cio: Relax subchannel scan loop
authorPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:57:13 +0000 (14:57 +0100)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:37:40 +0000 (14:37 +0100)
commitb207f5a8f9a60fda4e995151af7d8670015e261d
treea74f52249f1f4ba9fce1f4d94a1bcaeef57ec991
parent449666dd1efacaf3f0eb020cc617dd702356575c
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 <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
drivers/s390/cio/css.c