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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: A few questions and issues with dynticks, NOHZ and powertop
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:53:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100403235326.GA23445@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100403223328.GA4507@comet.dominikbrodowski.net>

Hi Dominik,

On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 12:33:28AM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> 
> 4) SynPS/2 touchpad: 
> Why does moving the touchpad lead to sooo many IRQs? I can't look as fast
> as the mouse pointer seems to get new data:
>   62,5% (473,1)       <interrupt> : PS/2 keyboard/mouse/touchpad 
> 

80 pps @ 6 bytes/packet = 480 interrupts/sec.

You can try using psmouse.rate=40 to limit it to 40 pps which should
bring it to the rate of standard PS/2 mouse at the expense of
sensitivity...

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-03 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-03 22:33 A few questions and issues with dynticks, NOHZ and powertop Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-03 23:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2010-04-04 10:35   ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 20:54     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-04 10:47   ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05  3:42     ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 20:41       ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 20:52         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-04 15:17 ` Alan Stern
2010-04-04 16:39   ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-04 20:47     ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-04 23:37       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05  3:44         ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05  4:22           ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 14:40             ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 15:14               ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 16:07                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 16:22                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 16:23                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 16:40                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 18:44                   ` david
2010-04-05 19:48                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-04-05 20:34                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 21:03       ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 21:38         ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-05 22:11           ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-05 22:31             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-06 20:45               ` Dominik Brodowski
2010-04-06 20:59                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-08 19:59 ` [RFC PATCH] nohz/sched: disable ilb on !mc_capable() Dominik Brodowski

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