From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Peter Wainwright <prw@ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux does not correctly implement the ACPI specification
Date: 12 Apr 2006 18:56:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73d5fm4trw.fsf@bragg.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1144493556.8409.0.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Peter Wainwright <prw@ceiriog.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
> Instead of executing all the GPE and Notify handlers in the single
> kacpid thread, we create a pool of worker threads and hand over the
> work to them.
You do this at boot - this means you waste a lot of memory for this
obscure case. Not a good idea. If anything create/destroy them
dynamically.
Also externs belong in header files.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-12 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-07 20:47 Concurrency in the execution of ACPI control methods Moore, Robert
2006-04-08 10:52 ` Linux does not correctly implement the ACPI specification Peter Wainwright
2006-04-12 16:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-04-27 19:23 ` Peter Wainwright
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