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From: Ping Cheng <pinglinux@gmail.com>
To: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/19] Input: Improve the events-per-packet estimate
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:06:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF8JNhJVUitsxQXTZAMSszzXXb_QG2oxVTdcJN40JTycmQNOrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120814200153.GA3525@polaris.bitmath.org>

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> wrote:
> Hi Ping,
>
> Long time no see. :-)
>
>> > +       /* Make room for KEY and MSC events */
>> > +       events += 7;
>>
>> It is nice to get rid of the redundant pieces and to incorporate
>> common functions. Thank you.
>>
>> I have a question about the code above though.  Why do we use 7
>> instead of going through the keys like:
>>
>>       for (i = 0; i < KEY_MAX; i++)
>>               if (test_bit(i, dev->keybit))
>>                       events++;
>
> Keyboards register a large amount of different keys, but seldom send
> more than one or two at a time. The value 7 is ad hoc, admittedly, but
> it makes the default buffer 8 bytes, which happens to precisely match
> the default buffer in evdev.

That can be a valid reason until we need to report more keys
simultaneously. Please update the comments so we know why we end up
with 7.

Thank you.

Ping

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-14 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-12 21:42 [PATCH 00/19] Input and HID updates for 3.7 Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 01/19] Input: Break out MT data Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 02/19] Input: Improve the events-per-packet estimate Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-14 19:32   ` Ping Cheng
2012-08-14 19:53     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-08-14 20:50       ` Ping Cheng
2012-08-14 21:12         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2012-08-15  0:54           ` Ping Cheng
2012-08-14 20:01     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-14 21:06       ` Ping Cheng [this message]
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 03/19] Input: Remove redundant packet estimates Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 04/19] Input: Make sure we follow all EV_KEY events Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 05/19] Input: Move autorepeat to the event-passing phase Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 06/19] Input: Send events one packet at a time Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-24  4:03   ` Daniel Kurtz
2012-08-25 19:38     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 07/19] Input: evdev - Add the events() callback Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-24  4:07   ` Daniel Kurtz
2012-08-25 19:46     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 08/19] Input: MT - Add flags to input_mt_init_slots() Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 09/19] Input: MT - Handle frame synchronization in core Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-15 23:28   ` Ping Cheng
2012-08-16 18:07     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-16 19:22       ` Ping Cheng
2012-08-16 20:05         ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-16 19:58       ` Ping Cheng
2012-08-20 13:36   ` Benjamin Tissoires
2012-08-20 15:53     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 10/19] Input: MT - Add in-kernel tracking Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 11/19] Input: MT - Add slot assignment by id Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 12/19] Input: bcm5974 - Preparatory renames Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 13/19] Input: bcm5974 - Drop pressure and width emulation Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 14/19] Input: bcm5974 - Drop the logical dimensions Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 15/19] Input: bcm5974 - Convert to MT-B Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 16/19] HID: hid-multitouch: Remove misleading null test Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-20 13:35   ` Benjamin Tissoires
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 17/19] HID: Only dump input if someone is listening Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 18/19] HID: Add an input configured notification callback Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-12 21:42 ` [PATCH 19/19] HID: multitouch: Remove the redundant touch state Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-20 13:36   ` Benjamin Tissoires
2012-08-20 16:01     ` Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-22 20:58     ` [PATCH v2] " Henrik Rydberg
2012-08-28 22:25       ` Jiri Kosina
2012-08-29 13:36         ` Benjamin Tissoires
2012-08-29 17:18           ` Jiri Kosina

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