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SubjectRe: Task queue makes slow device even slower
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David Woodhouse wrote:
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> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > You are constrained by timer resolution. Do you have a spare timer
> > and irq you can rig for this. If not the best you can do is probably
> > to use tq_immed and at least the udelays will not impact irq latency

> It's often been suggested, and it's a long way down my TODO list,
> that we should have the facility to shift the kernel timer tick onto
> the RTC, thereby leaving the 8254 timer available for this kind of
> thing. (We can't use the RTC because its range of frequencies is
> too restricted. It's fine for timer ticks, though.)

We really should implement soft timers, especially for the project
that started this discussion (from the information I gathered from
the replies).

Roger.

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