From: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
"Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
ACPI mailing list <acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ACPI] acpi_os_queue_for_execution()
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 01:58:04 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150000.1041857884@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E196C17.7D318CAF@digeo.com>
--On Monday, January 06, 2003 03:44:23 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
wrote:
> acpi_thermal_run is doing many sinful things. Blocking memory
> allocations as well as launching kernel threads from within a
> timer handler.
>
> Converting it to use schedule_work() or schedule_delayed_work()
> would fix that up.
So *that* is why ACPI kernels are so slow on my laptop (Dell i8k), and make
so much heat. I bet one of those threads ends up busy looping because of
other brokenness.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-06 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-03 19:00 [ACPI] acpi_os_queue_for_execution() Grover, Andrew
2003-01-04 22:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-01-05 12:23 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-01-06 11:12 ` Pavel Machek
2003-01-06 11:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-06 12:58 ` Andrew McGregor [this message]
2003-01-06 17:26 ` Faye Pearson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-07 14:23 peter.holmes
2003-01-08 9:47 ` Faye Pearson
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