On 31/01/07 18:15, Duncan Sands wrote:
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>> I've had it polling every 200ms on a dual ppro200 since november,
>> and it has never failed to poll the status.=20
>=20
> Great, that's certainly better than the speedtouch ;)
> I can't help feeling that polling twice a second is overkill.
> How about changing it to poll every 5 seconds if the line is
> up, and ten times as fast (as in this patch) if the line is
> down?  Also, what is the point of polling fast?  Does it matter
> if you miss some down-try_to_activate transitions?

It needs to be at most 2 seconds while down or it's going to miss some of=
 the state changes, why bother to output all the types of state if you're=
 going to ignore some of them?

As for while it's up, polling more often has a negligible effect on perfo=
rmance (still polling every 200ms here). If you change the timing for dif=
ferent states, you should know that it won't go into the down state on a =
retrain so ~up should enable faster polling.

--=20
Simon Arlott