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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 21:04:04 +0000
Subject: Re: Bad MIDI performance : 10ms latency instead of the expected
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> Is possible to create some thread for this loop inside kernel module?

There is no point

> I don't want to suspend the application execution due to a broken
> hardware. I did some tests with 2.2 kernels (using kernel_thread()) and
> I've not been successful.

It is cheaper for the application thread to spin briefly in kernel space
than to schedule other threads.