On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:24:31 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 11:03 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > [mtg: ] This has been a pain point for the PM_QOS implementation. They change the constrain back and forth at the transaction level of the i2c driver. The pm_qos code really wasn't made to deal with such hot path use, as each such change triggers a re-computation of what the aggregate qos request is. > > > > That should be trivial in the usual case because 99% of the time you can > > hot path > > > > the QoS entry changing is the latest one > > there have been no other changes > > If it is valid I can use the cached previous aggregate I cunningly > > saved in the top QoS entry when I computed the new one > > > > (ie most of the time from the kernel side you have a QoS stack) > > It's not just the list based computation: that's trivial to fix, as you > say ... the other problem is the notifier chain, because that's blocking > and could be long. Could we invoke the notifier through a workqueue? > It doesn't seem to have veto power, so it's pure notification, does it > matter if the notice is delayed (as long as it's in order)? I think schedule_work() (worqueue.h) can take care of that. Thats how the rfkill subsystem does it. Cheers, Flo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html