Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 06:51:30 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2, preemptable hardirqs |
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* Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 July 2004 11:27 am, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > other changes in -L2: > > > > i've done a softirq lock-break in the atkbd and ps2mouse drivers - this > > should fix the big latencies triggered by NumLock/CapsLock, reported by > > Lee Revell. > > > > Actually the following seems to be working on my laptop and I was > thinking about pushing it to Vojtech. Any reason why this should not > be done? > > (The patch is on top of Vojtech's tee + my other changes so it won't > apply to anything.)
your solution of pushing completion work into a workqueue is of course the right approach! My change was just papering over this artificial softirq latency. Please push it to Vojtech ASAP.
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