Re: [UBUNTU:acpi/ec] Use semaphore instead of spinlock

From: Lee Revell
Date: Thu Jun 15 2006 - 12:25:52 EST


On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:03 +0200, Voluspa wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:14:54 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > updated version:
>
> As a user, it's great if this fixes people's keyboards and mice. But it's
> not a panacea. Gkrellm reads CPU temperatures from
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature and that disturbs a time-critical
> application like mplayer, both when reading normal video and hacked mms:
> sound streams (ogg sound is OK, though):
>

It would be helpful to analyze this with Ingo's latency tracing patch.

Lee


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