[PATCH 1/6] pseries: avoid excess rtas calls

Nathan Lynch ntl at pobox.com
Thu Aug 9 07:57:39 EST 2007


Linas Vepstas wrote:
> 
> We don't need to look up the rtas event token once per 
> cpu per second. This avoids some misc string ops and 
> rtas calls and provides some minor performance improvement.

It does not avoid any calls to RTAS.  (rtas_token merely looks up
properties under the /rtas node.)

Otherwise, looks okay.




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