Re: various laptop nagles - any suggestions? (note: 2.6.19-rc2-mm1 but applies to multiple kernels)

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 11:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > So you're saying that CONFIG_NO_HZ breaks the touchpad?
> > 
> > yes.  At least for Acer Travelmate 8000 and HP nx6310 and HP nx7400.
> > Other than the touchpad - there is not a lot of common hardware between
> > these units.   The readout becomes highly unreliable.   (in X it starts
> > jumping around - it SORT OF resembles the output)
> > 
> > My suspicion is a timing problem in the synaptic USB driver
> 
> OK, that's going to be hard to fix and it'd be awkward (and unpopular) to
> make inclusion of the dynamic-ticks feature dependent on fixing this. 
> (Then again, it'd get Ingo into device drivers ;))

Maybe Ingo is the lesser evil than me when it comes down to device
drivers :)

> However I would suggest that NO_HZ (at least) be dependent upon
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL, no?

Fair enough.

> Also, NO_HZ breaks my laptop (and presumably quite a few others) quite
> horridly, which means nobody can ship the feature.  Some runtime
> turn-it-off work needs to be done there.

We can make a commandline switch as for highres. Is that sufficient ?

	tglx