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SubjectRe: [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix
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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Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd
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