From b88e769368a88cf28e53db158b84eda096144bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Srinivas_Gowda <srinivas_g_gowda@dell.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:42:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 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 <srinivas_g_gowda@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 50fcf9c04569..73ebbb1a3269 100644
--- 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);
 }
 
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