Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:14:53 +0000 |
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On Maw, 2006-02-07 at 15:27 -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: > Olaf: > > Try this patch and let me know how it works. > (it is against 2.6.16-rc2-git1) > > This change prevents claiming a partially filled > buffer if it has already been committed by the > driver calling a tty scheduling function, but not > yet processed by the tty layer.
Thats going to hurt memory consumption in the worst cases. Might be better to document the sane behaviour and enforce it ?
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