On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:10:33PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-07-16 at 18:03, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > The IDE CD drive is using DMA, and interrupts are unmasked.
> > > according to the logs, its happened 32 times since I last
>
> So why isnt this occurring on 2.4 .. thats the important question here is
> this a logging thing, a new input layer bug, an ide bug or what ?
The default kernel can spend very large amounts of time in IDE code.
With DMA it can be seconds.
With PIO it can be minutes.
This means that with PIO one may think that the system crashed, and see
(under X) keyboard or mouse actions only after for example two minutes.
With DMA things are much better, but still a delay of seconds
is very noticeable.
The input code used to have
if (psmouse->pktcnt && time_after(jiffies, psmouse->last + HZ/20)) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "psmouse.c: Lost synchronization, throwing \
%d bytes away.\n", psmouse->pktcnt);
psmouse->pktcnt = 0;
}
and I patched it to HZ/2, that helps, but is still not good enough.
Andries
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