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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/css.c b/drivers/s390/cio/css.c
index 8c2cb87bccc5..c1f9cc728c2d 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/cio/css.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/cio/css.c
@@ -553,6 +553,9 @@ static int slow_eval_unknown_fn(struct subchannel_id schid, void *data)
                 default:
                         rc = 0;
                 }
+                /* Allow scheduling here since the containing loop might
+                 * take a while.  */
+                cond_resched();
         }
         return rc;
 }