From: olof@lixom•net (Olof Johansson)
To: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman•id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvc_console polling mode timer backoff
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:56:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070413015631.GA11134@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176425143.4734.8.camel@concordia.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:45:43AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:09 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > I wasn't going to bring it up since I think it's a good approach as is,
> > but another thing that could be worth considering is to not just go
> > from whatever value to min on every actual input, instead go down in
> > delay a bit (say half the delay). Likewise you might be able to back off
> > more aggressively than just one millisecond per iteration. Of course,
> > both of these should take min/max values into consideration.
>
> I experimented with increasing the delay faster (100ms per iteration)
> and found it effected the feel of the console too much when you're
> actually typing. Though perhaps increasing by 10%-20% of the current
> delay every iteration might work OK.
Ok, no need to do it differently then really. I mostly wondered if
someone had already experimented.
-Olof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-13 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-12 16:14 [PATCH] hvc_console polling mode timer backoff Will Schmidt
2007-04-12 16:17 ` [PATCH] hvc_console typo corrections Will Schmidt
2007-04-12 17:33 ` [PATCH] hvc_console polling mode timer backoff Linas Vepstas
2007-04-12 18:43 ` Will Schmidt
2007-04-12 19:09 ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-13 0:45 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-13 1:56 ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-04-13 7:47 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-13 16:46 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-13 19:11 ` Will Schmidt
2007-04-15 13:33 ` Michael Ellerman
2007-04-16 19:34 ` Will Schmidt
2007-04-14 19:42 ` Milton Miller
2007-04-16 17:03 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-16 20:22 ` Will Schmidt
2007-04-16 21:59 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-17 0:13 ` Michael Ellerman
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