Comment 374 for bug 620074

Fantastic! Have you bisected the whole kernel tree between 2.17 and 2.20? Really great I've found those patches.

The first one doesn't seem to be very important to me, and in 2.6.30 some of its changes have been reverted. But the second one changes dramatically my system's responsiveness. I'm now running it reverted, and there's no possible comparison with the old behavior: now my pointer no longer freezes when performing updates, and almost everything is smooth!

For those that would like to try the patch in 2.6.30, I've updated it as I could, and I'm attaching it. It's quite dirty and I was doubtful it would work, but it looks like that's enough.

Would a kernel dev look at the patches Thomas identified and tell us what he thinks?