Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:56:18 -0600 | From | Paul Fulghum <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix |
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Paul Fulghum wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >> Thats going to hurt memory consumption in the worst cases. > > I'll gather some accounting info tomorrow, > and consider the more pathological cases.
Now that I think about it (ow!), there is a simple way to cap the memory penalty to a single extra buffer allocation and still maintain the existing interface behavior.
I'll post a new patch tomorrow.
Thanks, Paul
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