-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/10 03:42, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 03:06:07AM -0400, Rafi Rubin wrote: >> I'm playing with a project with a 2.6.29 kernel, and the userspace application >> seems to miss some events. Is there a particular fix that improved the handling? >> >> Also tried catting the dev to a file while testing, and the dump also is missing >> some events. >> > > No "interesting" patches went into evdev for a few release now... > > Hm, could it be that event queue is overflowing before userspace gets a > chance to empty it. What kind of event rate are we talking here? > Quite possibly. It is a multitouch device and we know Henrik's been concerned with the load for a while. So to put some numbers behind his fears: 146668 hid events processed 24952 evdev events captured with a cat 30 seconds (give or take). This is for a mix of different numbers of fingers, but continuous use for those 30 seconds. And X was running and reading the dev node too. Rafi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkv3okcACgkQwuRiAT9o609A7ACg44p+YjeGhsDPZ3nEsWAscWK6 6akAoPp/Vx1GjGCtQCfvPNTNzQHgAdTA =m4Mt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
