Re: [RFT/PATCH] atkbd - speed up setting leds/repeat state

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Monday 31 October 2005 07:47, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:24:02AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Input: atkbd - speed up setting leds/repeat state
> > 
> > Changing led state is pretty slow operation; when there are multiple
> > requests coming at a high rate they may interfere with normal typing.
> > Try optimize (skip) changing hardware state when multiple requests
> > are coming back-to-back.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
>  
> It looks good - just two comments:
> 
> 	1) wmb() shouldn't be needed after set_bit()
>

Judging by the comments in bitops only i386 implementation of set_bit
implies memory barrier, other arches do not guarantee it. That's why
I added wmb() there.
 
> 	2) maybe we want to enforce the delay before we send the 
>            next SET_LED command.
> 

Well, with this patch "while true; do xset led 3; xset led -3; done"
does not interfere with typing on my box and system load is staying
low which means we don't have too many outstanding requests.

-- 
Dmitry
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