On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:24:31 -0500
James Bottomley <james.bottom...@suse.de> 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
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