| Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:32:10 -0400 | From | Peter Hurley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 00/24] lockless n_tty receive path |
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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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