Re: [PATCH] ipconfig schedule fix

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:50:35 +0100
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This simple patch makes the DHCP/BOOTP/RARP code sleep with
> schedule_timeout() instead of hogging the cpu with cpu_relax() in a
> loop. This comes handy when a guest kernel is booted inside QEMU.
> Without the patch, the host operating system will consume cpu time
> busy waiting.

There are two similar loops involving CONF_PRE_OPEN and CONF_POST_OPEN,
you may wish to hit those while you're at it.