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Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer

From Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer
Date 2017-09-14 22:10 +0200
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On 09/14/2017 09:38 PM, David Lin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Jacek Anaszewski
> <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would change one more thing in this patch, though. The hr_timer engine
>> should be made optional and not used by default for fast LEDs.
>> It could be made configurable by exposing additional sysfs file from
>> ledtrig-transient.c, e.g. hr_timer_support, accepting boolean value.
> 
> Do you mean in additional to checking the LED_BRIGHTNESS_FAST flag,
> userspace has to explicitly enable it via sysfs for ledtrig to select
> hrtimer? This seems to be redundant to me. Could you please explain
> your concerns and the benefit of doing this? Thanks.

My concern is that fast LED users would be automatically
imposed a hr_timer overhead, which they may not need.

-- 
Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski

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[PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/3] leds: Add the LED_BRIGHTNESS_FAST flag David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 3/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/3] leds: Replace flags bit shift with BIT() macros David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] leds: Replace flags bit shift with BIT() macros Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 21:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-13 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 23:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-13 23:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-14 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-14 21:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 21:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-14 21:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 22:10 +0200
      Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-14 23:00 +0200
        Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 20:40 +0200
          Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-16 00:00 +0200
            Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-09-16 00:40 +0200
              Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-17 18:50 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-17 20:30 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-17 23:20 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-18 23:00 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-09-19 00:30 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-19 22:50 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-09-19 23:10 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 21:40 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-20 13:30 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 22:10 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-20 13:30 +0200
            Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-16 15:10 +0200
        Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-16 00:00 +0200
          Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-16 14:40 +0200
            Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-17 18:50 +0200
              Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-17 20:00 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-18 22:50 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-20 13:20 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 20:50 +0200

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