So, where do we go from here?

On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 23:59, Egbert Eich wrote:
> Mark Vojkovich writes:
>  > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>  > 
>  >    Egbert, if you can program the registers outside of the retrace
>  > without hardware gliches, I think you should just do that.  Polling
>  > for the retrace in the server should not be done for stuff like this.
>  > These apps are typically cpu intensive so they are competing with 
>  > the server for CPU.  That means the server might not even be scheduled
>  > during the retrace a good deal of the time.  I suspect the server
>  > spends its entire slice spinning most of the time.
>  > 
> 
> Right, I didn't program this. I don't like to put any of this busy
> waiting into drivers if I can help it. Especially during DVD playback
> this will waste so much CPU time. This will certainly not increase
> quality of the playback.
> 
> Egbert.
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