svn commit: r195960 - in head/sys/dev/usb: . controller input

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Sunday 02 August 2009 21:58:14 Robert N. M. Watson wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2009, at 20:29, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> [090801 15:15] wrote:
> >> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> >>>>> This has slowed down core dumps very significantly.  What used
> >>>>> to take
> >>>>> 10-15s on my system now takes around 3 minutes.  A simple test
> >>>>> is to
> >>>>> break into ddb and "call doadump" with or without this rev.  I
> >>>>> have a
> >>>>> serial console on this machine and so I can use ddb whether the
> >>>>> attached
> >>>>> USB keyboard works or not.
> >>>
> >>> It's because there is a DELAY(1000) in the UKBD's polling routine
> >>> so that
> >>> key- repeating will work, no magic.
> >>
> >> Given a choice between dumping 10x faster and having automatic key
> >> repeat
> >> in DDB, I'd lean towards the former.  :-)
> >
> > Robert, and *@freebsd.org,
> >
> > Hans should be back in a day or so to address this.  If critical I can
> > probably back out the offending code, but I think it makes sense to
> > wait a few days more for a more comprehensive fix.
>
> That's my feeling too -- however, I think it would be useful to
> generate a small concept test patch that disables the key repeat
> behavior and see if it restores some/all performance. Scott's argument
> suggests only some, but perhaps we'd get quite a bit, which is what
> we're looking for. We wouldn't commit the patch but it would let us
> know we're on the right track.

Hi,

I'm back. 

I see two solutions:

1) Disable the timekeeping if no keys are pressed.

2) Second option is to use getmicrotime. Actually what I need is just a 
millisecond time reference so I know when to repeat the last key.

Any opinions? DELAY() or getmicrotime() ?

--HPS