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From: Andi Kleen <ak-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
To: Stefan Seyfried
	<seife-T+3qhDtrTvDv8lqoKu5MV4HBZQ1bDw0s@public.gmane.org>
Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Don't disable interrupts during EC access
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:25:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041117122541.GJ4620@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041117012527.GB10900-l0tNAEGuAhhzZ8+rp42Dbp9+tswZ0GTaehPwdyo5hKaELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:25:27AM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:29:46PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>  
> > And the event polling can take several ms, there is just no way 
> > to do this during runtime with interrupts off. Especially since
> > thermal will do this every few seconds. With my patch at least 
> > only kacpid is blocked for that long, not the whole system.
> 
> may this also help the awfully slow battery polling on some machines
> (e.g. Dell D600) or is this a completely different case?

Yes, it should help exactly this case. Or at least least it fixes
the problem on a Presario A64 laptop.

-Andi



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-17 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-16  6:15 [PATCH] Don't disable interrupts during EC access Yu, Luming
2004-11-16 12:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]   ` <20041116121616.GG1108-+pPCBgu9SkPzIGdyhVEDUDl5KyyQGfY2kSSpQ9I8OhVaa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-16 12:29     ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]       ` <20041116122946.GG28839-B4tOwbsTzaBolqkO4TVVkw@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-17  1:25         ` Stefan Seyfried
     [not found]           ` <20041117012527.GB10900-l0tNAEGuAhhzZ8+rp42Dbp9+tswZ0GTaehPwdyo5hKaELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
2004-11-17 12:25             ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2004-11-17 10:56 Yu, Luming
2004-11-17 11:50 ` Stefan Seyfried

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