From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030773AbWFOQ1H (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:27:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030789AbWFOQ1H (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:27:07 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:12253 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030773AbWFOQ1F (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:27:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [UBUNTU:acpi/ec] Use semaphore instead of spinlock From: Lee Revell To: Voluspa Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, len.brown@intel.com, rdreier@cisco.com, Ingo Molnar In-Reply-To: <20060615130336.176f527c.lista1@comhem.se> References: <20060615010850.3d375fa9.lista1@comhem.se> <4490B48E.5060304@oracle.com> <20060615130336.176f527c.lista1@comhem.se> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:27:03 -0400 Message-Id: <1150388824.2925.105.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:03 +0200, Voluspa wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:14:54 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > > updated version: > > As a user, it's great if this fixes people's keyboards and mice. But it's > not a panacea. Gkrellm reads CPU temperatures from > /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature and that disturbs a time-critical > application like mplayer, both when reading normal video and hacked mms: > sound streams (ogg sound is OK, though): > It would be helpful to analyze this with Ingo's latency tracing patch. Lee