mwl8k: use cond_resched() when loading firmware blocks
authorLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:20:16 +0000 (20:20 +0200)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:44:45 +0000 (18:44 -0500)
commit3d76e82c9538d8104e578ca460d35f214bfddfd3
tree0c12376c51edd564d8e6dec453e8678750b76aa8
parent32060e1b64f23fe315a35d2df8c2c7ad010df73e
mwl8k: use cond_resched() when loading firmware blocks

Since each firmware block takes on the order of several hundred usec
to upload to the hardware, using msleep in the inner loop would make
the firmware loading process take a lot more time than just doing
busy-waiting like we do now.  But if we keep the busy-waiting, we can
at least add a cond_resched() to the inner loop so that we give other
tasks a chance to run while the firmware is being loaded.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c