From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ram <vshrirama@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel processes - are they really needed?
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 21:51:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711012151.35573.dtor@insightbb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73k5p32nqk.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 13:33, Andi Kleen wrote:
> "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 10/24/07, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> My favourite for a ridiculous thread was and is "kpsmoused"
> >>
> >
> > Mouse querying can take significant amount of time. Do you really want
> > all your other events to be delayed just because kernel tries to get
> > mouse back in order?
>
> How long?
If a mouse is stubborn and does not want to get enabled it may sleep
up to 1 sec.
>
>
> >
> > Although I probably want to kill it if mouse resync is disabled...
>
> How often does that happen? Can't you just start a thread for this
> as needed? Or if it's a simple algorithm you can just use a state machine
> using timers?
>
The IRQ handler is already too complex, I'd rather not mess with a state
machine. I will see how to kill the thread if resync is disabled.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-02 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 13:37 kernel processes - are they really needed? Ram
2007-10-24 15:30 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-10-24 19:43 ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-31 16:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-31 17:33 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-02 1:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2007-10-31 16:01 ` Jan Kara
2007-10-31 17:10 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
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