Re: another must-fix: major PS/2 mouse problem

Albert Cahalan
2003-07-23T00:38:30Z

I may have found the problem!

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 15:18, Yoann wrote:

> I have the same problem with my laptop, chip sis630,
> celeron 1.2Ghz, 256MB of RAM (32MB for video), mouse
> on PS/2 (ImPS/2) abd read mp3 throught nfs partition
> (ethernet 100MB). I haven't try without traffic on
> nfs but I will try next time I boot on the 2.5.70

Using the lockmeter on a 2.5.75 kernel, I discovered
that boomerang_interrupt() grabs a spinlock for over
1/4 second. No joke, 253 ms. Interrupts are off AFAIK.

Mouse behavior is terrible.

It should be no surprise that NTP isn't working too
well either. The ntpd daemon keeps complaining about
losing sync and having to advance the clock by amounts
of over 100 seconds.

Could somebody with the hardware manual take a look
at that function?