Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthread | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:58:41 +0200 |
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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....
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