Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Huge console switching lags | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:24:07 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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.
A console switch has to wait until queued I/O to that console is complete, which in turn could take a measurable amount of time - so it has to block. Also a console switch on a frame buffer with no hardware banking can take a lot of time.
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