[RFC/RFT] calloutng

[Alexander Motin]

On 20.12.2012 12:56, Fabian Keil wrote:
> Alexander Motin <mav at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Experiments with dummynet shown ineffective support for very short
>> tick-based callouts. New version fixes that, allowing to get as many
>> tick-based callout events as hz value permits, while still be able to
>> aggregate events and generating minimum of interrupts.
>>
>> Also this version modifies system load average calculation to fix some
>> cases existing in HEAD and 9 branches, that could be fixed with new
>> direct callout functionality.
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/calloutng_12_17.patch
>
> With this patch (and the previous one, I didn't test the others)
> my mouse cursor is occasionally not reacting for short amounts of
> time (less than a second, but long enough to be noticeable).
>
> Every now and then the window manager (i3-wm) changes window focus
> which could be explained by either phantom keyboard or mouse input,
> or terminal lines are marked as if the cursor was moved with the
> left button pressed.
>
> The problems happen a couple of times per hour but I haven't
> been able to intentionally reproduce them. They only seem to
> occur while I'm moving the cursor, but of course I wouldn't
> otherwise notice a unresponsive cursor anyway.
>
> While the cursor is unresponsive, keyboard input and the rest
> of the system works as expected as far as I can tell.
>
> If I set debug.psm.loglevel=4 I get a "psm0: lost interrupt?"
> message once per second when not moving the mouse, however that
> also happens without the patch and thus might be unrelated.
>
> I'm using moused.

Could you try to revert part of the patch, related to dev/atkbdc? I am 
not strong in details of that hardware, but in comments there mention 
that they are related. May be lost keyboard interrupts (which polling 
rate was increased to 1 second) cause PS/2 mouse delays.

-- 
Alexander Motin