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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 01:58:04 +1300
From: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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--On Monday, January 06, 2003 03:44:23 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> 
wrote:

> acpi_thermal_run is doing many sinful things.  Blocking memory
> allocations as well as launching kernel threads from within a
> timer handler.
>
> Converting it to use schedule_work() or schedule_delayed_work()
> would fix that up.

So *that* is why ACPI kernels are so slow on my laptop (Dell i8k), and make 
so much heat.  I bet one of those threads ends up busy looping because of 
other brokenness.
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