From: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Pierre Paul MINGOT <mingot.pierre@gmail.com>,
jslaby@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add possibility to set /dev/tty number
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:33:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <568BE238.8010204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160105152417.GB7251@kroah.com>
On 2016-01-05 10:24, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:16:52AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
>>> And those embedded devices can almost certainly save more by just not
>>> including the vt layer.
>> And a few pages can make a difference on _any_ device, not just an embedded
>> system. For a purpose specific system, that can be the difference between
>> fitting the working set in memory and having to hit swap space.
>
> No one has proven any memory savings yet, so why are you saying this is
> noticable?
I didn't mean to imply that the VT subsystem itself was necessarily
responsible for any space savings, I simply intended to point out that
savings of a few pages can make a difference.
On that note though, I think I've got something that should work to
check this across a couple of different configurations, so I'll
hopefully have results soon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-05 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-04 15:34 [PATCH] Add possibility to set /dev/tty number Pierre Paul MINGOT
2016-01-04 15:43 ` Greg KH
2016-01-04 16:57 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-04 17:11 ` Greg KH
2016-01-04 18:41 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-04 22:55 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-05 13:16 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 15:24 ` Greg KH
2016-01-05 15:33 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn [this message]
2016-01-05 16:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-01-05 16:22 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 8:51 ` Pierre Paul MINGOT
2016-01-05 13:02 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 15:25 ` Greg KH
2016-01-05 15:43 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 16:03 ` Greg KH
2016-01-05 18:38 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-05 20:47 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-06 12:42 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-06 13:54 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-01-06 14:07 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-01-06 13:39 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
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