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From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvc_console polling mode timer backoff
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:46:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070413164659.GY4747@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176450459.4734.32.camel@concordia.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:47:39PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 
> I played with this a bit more, and a ~2% increment seems to work nicely.
> It stays low for the first 10-20 seconds, but then approaches the max
> much faster once there's no activity for a while.
> 
> A few examples:
> http://michael.ellerman.id.au/files/cell-backoff.svg

Looks good to me. 

> changed it to use a shift instead of divide. So now it's more like 1.5%,
> but still the point is it increases faster as time passes.

Looks god to me. I suppose

Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> 

is the right thing to say here.

--linas

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-13 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-12 16:14 [PATCH] hvc_console polling mode timer backoff Will Schmidt
2007-04-12 16:17 ` [PATCH] hvc_console typo corrections Will Schmidt
2007-04-12 17:33 ` [PATCH] hvc_console polling mode timer backoff Linas Vepstas
2007-04-12 18:43   ` Will Schmidt
2007-04-12 19:09     ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-13  0:45       ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-13  1:56         ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-13  7:47 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-13 16:46   ` Linas Vepstas [this message]
2007-04-13 19:11   ` Will Schmidt
2007-04-15 13:33     ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-16 19:34       ` Will Schmidt
2007-04-14 19:42   ` Milton Miller
2007-04-16 17:03     ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-16 20:22     ` Will Schmidt
2007-04-16 21:59       ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-17  0:13       ` Michael Ellerman

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