Re: PS/2 mouse latency was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [DATAPOINT] kernels and latencies

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 13:26:29 EST


> > The PS/2 hardware requires delays, but it does not require that
> > interrupts are off for the entire period to my knowledge.
>
> OK, but there's still the locking. We can't just have the interrupt
> handler frob the controller while elsewhere we're poking it, can we?

Indeed we cannot. We need to do locking but we need to do it a different
way.

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