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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 00/24] lockless n_tty receive path
On 06/17/2013 04:01 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 09:14:12AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
>> Greg,
>>
>> As before, this patchset is dependent on the 'ldsem patchset'.
>> The reason is that this series abandons tty->receive_room as
>> a flow control mechanism (because that requires locking),
>> and the TIOCSETD ioctl _without ldsem_ uses tty->receive_room
>> to shutoff i/o.
>>
>> It is also dependent on 'n_tty fixes' which I recently resent
>> to you.
>
> Thanks for rebasing all of this, and resending it. It's late in the
> 3.11 development cycle, so I'm going to wait unto 3.11-rc1 is out to
> queue it up for 3.12, to get it lots of testing in linux-next.

Thanks Greg. I actually meant to suggest these be held until after
the merge window but I got distracted by the VT1 deallocation bug
report.

Regards,
Peter Hurley


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