Re: fbcon + scrolling = irq timeouts?

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:09:56 +0100


Hi!

> > normally use any vesa bios functions at runtime!) you spend just too
> > much time in kernel space and mp3 player fails to meet that deadline.
> >
> > So cure could be few schedules() at strategical places in fbcon
>
> Ok. I don't have a problem with that.

Unfortunately, my machine has some problems with it.

is

if (current->need_resched)
schedule()

the way to go? I tried that and console got pretty much unusable. I
guess I'll need to introduce one more semaphore?
Pavel

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