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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Shem Multinymous <multinymous@gmail.com>,
	David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olpc-dev@laptop.org,
	greg@kroah.com, len.brown@intel.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: Battery class driver.
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:53:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061024035346.GA24538@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1161661707.10524.547.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:48:27PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 04:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> > Reading the battery status has the potential to call an SMI that might 
> > take an arbitrary period of time to return, and we found that having 
> > querying at around the 1 second mark tended to result in noticable 
> > system performace degredation.

> I think it's up to the backend to poll more slowly and cache the results
> on those machines then.

The kernel backend or the userspace backend? We need to decide on 
terminology :) There's no good programmatic way of determining how long 
a query will take other than doing it and looking at the result. I guess 
we could do that at boot time.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-24  3:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-23 18:20 Battery class driver David Woodhouse
2006-10-23 18:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-23 18:30   ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-24  3:36   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-23 18:30 ` Greg KH
2006-10-23 18:32   ` Greg KH
2006-10-23 18:50   ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-24  3:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-23 21:04   ` Jean Delvare
2006-10-23 22:15 ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-23 22:59   ` Greg KH
2006-10-24  1:31     ` David Zeuthen
2006-10-24  3:04       ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-24  2:56   ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-24  3:27     ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-24  3:48       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-24  3:53         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2006-10-24  5:43           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-24 11:09           ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-24  2:04 ` Shem Multinymous
2006-10-25 10:45 ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] <1161628327.19446.391.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
2006-10-23 19:18 ` Dan Williams
2006-10-23 19:58   ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-23 20:10     ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-23 20:48     ` David Woodhouse
2006-10-24  3:44       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-10-24 17:18       ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-24  3:41     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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