Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:31:29 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking. |
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On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:15:35PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair. > > This patch turns that into a single allocation. > > A naive question from someone who knows nothing about this subsystem: > is there any possibility of concurrent calls into this function, for > example if there are multiple cursors on a multiheaded system?
It's all called under the console_sem iirc.
Dave
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