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

From: Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2000 - 21:14:09 EST


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Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> Which leads to my other question: can we "ignore" the interrupt
> (i.e. just update a flag somewhere) for later processing in a process
> context?
>
> Or can we block the interrupt? And hope no-one else is sharing it...
>
> Or do you have some other scheme in mind?

How important is this anyway? Does the PS/2 mouse get written to
regularly, or just at initialisation/reconfiguration time?

In fact, what's the point in writing to a mouse? Does it make it move
across your desk?

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