Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:10:41 -0400 (EDT) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: Huge console switching lags |
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: >In 2.4.10, the console switching code moved from interrupt context >into process context. So if your system is taking a long time to >schedule processes (in this case, keventd) then yes, console >switching will take a long time.
And what's the brilliant reason for this? And don't give any BS about it taking too long inside an interrupt context -- we're switching consoles not start netscrape.
--Ricky
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