From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:14:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139361293.22595.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1139347644.3174.16.camel@amdx2.microgate.com>
On Maw, 2006-02-07 at 15:27 -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> Olaf:
>
> Try this patch and let me know how it works.
> (it is against 2.6.16-rc2-git1)
>
> This change prevents claiming a partially filled
> buffer if it has already been committed by the
> driver calling a tty scheduling function, but not
> yet processed by the tty layer.
Thats going to hurt memory consumption in the worst cases. Might be
better to document the sane behaviour and enforce it ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200602032312.k13NCbWb012991@hera.kernel.org>
2006-02-07 12:34 ` [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix Olaf Hering
2006-02-07 16:21 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-07 17:11 ` Olaf Hering
2006-02-07 18:47 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-07 21:27 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-08 1:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-02-08 2:41 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-08 2:56 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-08 22:05 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-08 22:39 ` Olaf Hering
2006-01-26 20:33 Paul Fulghum
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