Re: [RFT/PATCH] atkbd - speed up setting leds/repeat state

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 07:56:19 EST


On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:24:02AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Input: atkbd - speed up setting leds/repeat state
>
> Changing led state is pretty slow operation; when there are multiple
> requests coming at a high rate they may interfere with normal typing.
> Try optimize (skip) changing hardware state when multiple requests
> are coming back-to-back.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>

It looks good - just two comments:

1) wmb() shouldn't be needed after set_bit()

2) maybe we want to enforce the delay before we send the
next SET_LED command.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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