From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>, Ram <vshrirama@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel processes - are they really needed?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:33:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73k5p32nqk.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000710310935i13629beahdc01e775e3cf6aa@mail.gmail.com> (Dmitry Torokhov's message of "Wed\, 31 Oct 2007 12\:35\:31 -0400")
"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?
>
> 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?
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 13:37 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 [this message]
2007-11-02 1:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-10-31 16:01 ` Jan Kara
2007-10-31 17:10 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
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