Re: [linux-usb-devel] [4/4] 2.6.23-rc3: known regressions

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > So it might be much better if we instead re-introduced that kind of "DMA 
> > latency requirement", and letting different subsystems react to that as 
> > they may.
> 
> wait.... we HAVE that infrastructure .. see kernel/latency.c ...

Heh. Just shows how wellknown that interface is - it seems like it's only 
used by the ipw2100 driver and "pcm_native".

But yes, that looks like the right thing.

> and the C-state code will honor it. CPUFREQ doesn't honor it yet but
> that's easy to add.. (this assumes the ACPI BIOS informs us correctly
> about the cpu behavior, but that's the best we can do obviously unless
> you want a table inside the kernel keyed off vendor/model/stepping)

Do we actually have the latency information for these things? Especially 
since I assume a number of people use the specialized direct-hw-access 
cpufreq drivers..

I realize that we *have* "transition_latency" at the cpufreq layer, and it 
is supposed to be in ns, but I wonder how likely it is to bear any 
relationship to reality, considering that I don't think it's really used 
for anything.. (yeah, it affects the heuristics, but I don't think it has 
any _hard_ meaning, so I'd worry that it's not necessarily something that 
people have tried to make accurate).

But I dunno.

		Linus
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