Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965464AbXA3JmH (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:42:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965475AbXA3JmH (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:42:07 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:53526 "EHLO mail.suse.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965464AbXA3JmF (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:42:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:42:05 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Alessandro Di Marco Cc: Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0 Message-ID: <20070130094205.GA2888@suse.cz> References: <87lkjthdmd.fsf@gmx.it> <20070123184432.GE18662@elf.ucw.cz> <873b61cf1v.fsf@gmx.it> <20070126171536.GB964@elf.ucw.cz> <878xfpoeom.fsf@gmx.it> <20070127174525.GA4787@ucw.cz> <20070127192034.GA17652@suse.cz> <874pqanddd.fsf@gmx.it> <20070129222833.GB17330@elf.ucw.cz> <87odoho3pb.fsf@gmx.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87odoho3pb.fsf@gmx.it> X-Bounce-Cookie: It's a lemon tree, dear Watson! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1677 Lines: 39 On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:42:08PM +0100, Alessandro Di Marco wrote: > Pavel Machek writes: > > Hi! > > > The /proc/bus/input/devices has an extensible structure. You can just > > add an "A:" line (for Activity) instead of adding a new proc file. > > > > I know, but IMO there is too much stuff to parse in there. Activity counters > > are frequently accessed by daemons, and four or five concurrent daemons are the > > norm in a typical X11 linux box... > > Syscalls are fast enough, and the file is _very_ easy (=> fast) to parse. > > > Also, the activity counters should IMO coincide with the event times > > passed through /dev/input/event, and should not be jiffies based. > > Ideally, both should be based on clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC). > > > > In evdev.c do_gettimeofday() is used. Anyway I just need of a monotonic > > counter, so get_jiffies_64() wouldn't be better? It isn't affected by wrapping > > issues and it is probably faster than do_gtod(). > > Just use same time source rest of inputs already do... > > OK, but what about the time-warp problem?. To fix it I need to know when the > system goes to sleep/resumes. In SIN I've solved via the platform driver, > introducing suspend() resume() callbacks... Well, you just need to make sure that a resume() actually is a visible event ... -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/