From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932990AbWFZT6u (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:58:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932986AbWFZT6u (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:58:50 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:16006 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932990AbWFZT6t (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:58:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread From: Arjan van de Ven To: Matt Domsch Cc: Andrew Morton , Corey Minyard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peter@palfrader.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20060626194937.GA16528@lists.us.dell.com> References: <20060626140819.GA17804@localdomain> <20060626120048.cff87fac.akpm@osdl.org> <20060626194937.GA16528@lists.us.dell.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:58:41 +0200 Message-Id: <1151351921.3185.76.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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....