[Skiboot] [PATCH 2/6] core/cpu: remove POWER8 IPI loop

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 03:10:38 AEDT 2020


POWER8 should not have to loop sending IPIs until the destination
wakes up. One should be enough.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 core/cpu.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/cpu.c b/core/cpu.c
index cbff6d709..2c2b678ff 100644
--- a/core/cpu.c
+++ b/core/cpu.c
@@ -597,10 +597,8 @@ static void reconfigure_idle_start(void)
 
 	if (proc_gen == proc_gen_p8) {
 		for_each_available_cpu(cpu) {
-			while (cpu->in_sleep || cpu->in_idle) {
+			if (cpu->in_sleep || cpu->in_idle)
 				icp_kick_cpu(cpu);
-				cpu_relax();
-			}
 		}
 	} else if (proc_gen == proc_gen_p9) {
 		for_each_available_cpu(cpu) {
-- 
2.23.0



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