#define ACPI_EC_DELAY          500     /* Wait 500ms max. during EC ops */
 #define ACPI_EC_UDELAY_GLK     1000    /* Wait 1ms max. to get global lock */
 #define ACPI_EC_MSI_UDELAY     550     /* Wait 550us for MSI EC */
+#define ACPI_EC_UDELAY_POLL    1000    /* Wait 1ms for EC transaction polling */
 #define ACPI_EC_CLEAR_MAX      100     /* Maximum number of events to query
                                         * when trying to clear the EC */
 
        u8 wlen;
        u8 rlen;
        u8 flags;
+       unsigned long timestamp;
 };
 
 static int acpi_ec_query(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 *data);
 {
        u8 x = inb(ec->data_addr);
 
+       ec->curr->timestamp = jiffies;
        pr_debug("EC_DATA(R) = 0x%2.2x\n", x);
        return x;
 }
 {
        pr_debug("EC_SC(W) = 0x%2.2x\n", command);
        outb(command, ec->command_addr);
+       ec->curr->timestamp = jiffies;
 }
 
 static inline void acpi_ec_write_data(struct acpi_ec *ec, u8 data)
 {
        pr_debug("EC_DATA(W) = 0x%2.2x\n", data);
        outb(data, ec->data_addr);
+       ec->curr->timestamp = jiffies;
 }
 
 #ifdef DEBUG
 {
        ec->curr->irq_count = ec->curr->wi = ec->curr->ri = 0;
        ec->curr->flags = 0;
+       ec->curr->timestamp = jiffies;
        advance_transaction(ec);
 }
 
        while (repeat--) {
                unsigned long delay = jiffies +
                        msecs_to_jiffies(ec_delay);
+               unsigned long usecs = ACPI_EC_UDELAY_POLL;
                do {
                        /* don't sleep with disabled interrupts */
                        if (EC_FLAGS_MSI || irqs_disabled()) {
-                               udelay(ACPI_EC_MSI_UDELAY);
+                               usecs = ACPI_EC_MSI_UDELAY;
+                               udelay(usecs);
                                if (ec_transaction_completed(ec))
                                        return 0;
                        } else {
                                if (wait_event_timeout(ec->wait,
                                                ec_transaction_completed(ec),
-                                               msecs_to_jiffies(1)))
+                                               usecs_to_jiffies(usecs)))
                                        return 0;
                        }
                        spin_lock_irqsave(&ec->lock, flags);
-                       advance_transaction(ec);
+                       if (time_after(jiffies,
+                                       ec->curr->timestamp +
+                                       usecs_to_jiffies(usecs)))
+                               advance_transaction(ec);
                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ec->lock, flags);
                } while (time_before(jiffies, delay));
                pr_debug("controller reset, restart transaction\n");