From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peter@palfrader.org,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:58:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151351921.3185.76.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060626194937.GA16528@lists.us.dell.com>
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 14:49 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> We need to be able to poll at faster-than-timer-tick rates, yet let
> other higher-priority apps run. Hence the schedule(). We're open to
> other suggestions, but this seemed minimally intrusive while
> accomplishing the goal. No more soft lockups or jittery mice.
at least put a whole bunch of cpu_relax() in that loop, or your cpu
will.. get hot. Would also be nice if cpufreq had a "run this one slow"
option....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-26 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060626140819.GA17804@localdomain>
2006-06-26 15:04 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Matt Domsch
2006-06-26 19:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 19:49 ` Matt Domsch
2006-06-26 19:58 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-06-26 20:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-06-26 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 19:52 ` Corey Minyard
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