Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:57:01 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/21] TTY buffer in tty_port and other stuff |
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:26:26 +0200 Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi, > > this is the fifth series of patches which finally move tty buffers > from tty_struct (present from open to close/hangup) to tty_port > (present as long as the device). This allows us to get rid of the tty > refcounting in the interrupt service routines and other hot paths > after we are done. This is because we do not need to handle races > among ISRs, timers, hangups and others, because tty_port lives as long > as an interrupt/timer tick may occur. Unlike tty_struct.
Looks good to me working through them
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
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