Re: Battery class driver.

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:48:27PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 04:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> > Reading the battery status has the potential to call an SMI that might 
> > take an arbitrary period of time to return, and we found that having 
> > querying at around the 1 second mark tended to result in noticable 
> > system performace degredation.

> I think it's up to the backend to poll more slowly and cache the results
> on those machines then.

The kernel backend or the userspace backend? We need to decide on 
terminology :) There's no good programmatic way of determining how long 
a query will take other than doing it and looking at the result. I guess 
we could do that at boot time.

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