From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
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Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:56:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E95DD2.6000601@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E95A40.7010905@microgate.com>
Paul Fulghum wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> Thats going to hurt memory consumption in the worst cases.
>
> I'll gather some accounting info tomorrow,
> and consider the more pathological cases.
Now that I think about it (ow!), there is a simple way
to cap the memory penalty to a single extra buffer allocation
and still maintain the existing interface behavior.
I'll post a new patch tomorrow.
Thanks,
Paul
--
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 2:56 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
2006-02-08 2:41 ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-08 2:56 ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
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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