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Commit 8859f58c authored by Helge Deller's avatar Helge Deller Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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parisc: led: Reduce CPU overhead for disk & lan LED computation

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 upstream.

Older PA-RISC machines have LEDs which show the disk- and LAN-activity.
The computation is done in software and takes quite some time, e.g. on a
J6500 this may take up to 60% time of one CPU if the machine is loaded
via network traffic.

Since most people don't care about the LEDs, start with LEDs disabled and
just show a CPU heartbeat LED. The disk and LAN LEDs can be turned on
manually via /proc/pdc/led.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 2655e1d9
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