Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux | Date | 6 Jul 2000 11:16:51 -0700 |
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In article <20000706005520.A1454@bug.ucw.cz>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote: > >With fbcon on machine with loaded PCI bus (usb modem), N can be ~500, >even more with really full screen. You know, fbcon is running with >interrupts disabled.
I don't know why people keep on mentioning fbcon.
The answer is really simple: if you want low latencies, don't use fbcon. (Or, if you want to, fix it). End of story. This is not a "Linux problem" - it's a "don't do that then" problem.
Adding ugly code to fix othe rugly code is not the answer. Fixing the ugly code is, or just deciding that something is unusable. But fbcon is not an argument for adding new low-latency features to the kernel.
Linus
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