[PATCH] hvc_console polling mode timer backoff
Linas Vepstas
linas at austin.ibm.com
Sat Apr 14 02:46:59 EST 2007
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 05:47:39PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>
> I played with this a bit more, and a ~2% increment seems to work nicely.
> It stays low for the first 10-20 seconds, but then approaches the max
> much faster once there's no activity for a while.
>
> A few examples:
> http://michael.ellerman.id.au/files/cell-backoff.svg
Looks good to me.
> changed it to use a shift instead of divide. So now it's more like 1.5%,
> but still the point is it increases faster as time passes.
Looks god to me. I suppose
Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linas at austin.ibm.com>
is the right thing to say here.
--linas
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