Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel processes - are they really needed? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:33:07 +0100 |
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"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> writes:
> On 10/24/07, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: >> >> My favourite for a ridiculous thread was and is "kpsmoused" >> > > Mouse querying can take significant amount of time. Do you really want > all your other events to be delayed just because kernel tries to get > mouse back in order?
How long?
> > Although I probably want to kill it if mouse resync is disabled...
How often does that happen? Can't you just start a thread for this as needed? Or if it's a simple algorithm you can just use a state machine using timers?
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