From: Andrew McGregor <andrew-Rd3uoDiDeHXJKwlM9GxbOw@public.gmane.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm-LL/9OlyS9hIAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
"Grover,
Andrew" <andrew.grover-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>,
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Subject: Re: [ACPI] acpi_os_queue_for_execution()
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 01:58:04 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150000.1041857884@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E196C17.7D318CAF-LL/9OlyS9hIAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
--On Monday, January 06, 2003 03:44:23 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm-LL/9OlyS9hIAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> acpi_thermal_run is doing many sinful things. Blocking memory
> allocations as well as launching kernel threads from within a
> timer handler.
>
> Converting it to use schedule_work() or schedule_delayed_work()
> would fix that up.
So *that* is why ACPI kernels are so slow on my laptop (Dell i8k), and make
so much heat. I bet one of those threads ends up busy looping because of
other brokenness.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-06 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-03 19:00 [ACPI] acpi_os_queue_for_execution() Grover, Andrew
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2003-01-04 22:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-01-05 12:23 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-01-06 11:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-06 11:44 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <3E196C17.7D318CAF-LL/9OlyS9hIAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2003-01-06 12:58 ` Andrew McGregor [this message]
[not found] ` <20150000.1041857884-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2003-01-06 17:26 ` Faye Pearson
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