Bas Mevissen (sgm@stack.nl)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 19:19:47 +0100
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: From: Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it>
: To: Bas Mevissen <sgm@stack.nl>
: Cc: Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com>; David Campbell
<campbell@gear.torque.net>; Linux Parallel Port Development Mailing List
<linux-parport@torque.net>
: Subject: Re: [PARPORT] Speed of ppa 1.40 driver
: Date: Friday, February 06, 1998 12:19 AM
:
: On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Bas Mevissen wrote:
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: >That's a good offer. CPU consumption reported by 'time' is about 4% now.
:
: Wrong. CPU load is very more high than 4%. Only /proc/loadavg report the
: right load of the CPU because the ppa_engine() is interrupt timer driven
: and is not checked by usual user level programs such us ps or top (or
: time). Maybe with the old driver in 2.0.33 this will not happen because
: ppa was tq_scheduler and not tq_timer driven but I am not sure of this.
:
Yep, you are right. It was quite late when I wrote that :-))
Bas.
: Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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