Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:18:10 +0530 | From | Amit Shah <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv6 0/3] virtio_console: Add rproc_serial device |
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On (Tue) 25 Sep 2012 [15:47:14], sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com wrote: > From: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> > > I thought rebasing rproc_serial to linux-next was going to be trivial. > But when starting the merge I realized that I had to refactor the > the patches from Masami Hiramatsu. The splice support has the same issue > as I faced, with different type of buffers in the out_vq. > So I ended up refactoring the splice functionality. The code > size got smaller so hopefully this a step in the right direction. > > This refactoring also make introduction of rproc_serial cleaner. > > As requested I also added a patch for not initializing buffers. > > I have tested the VIRTIO_CONSOLE device by looping large amount of data > through character device and tty, with lockdep and slub-debug on. > This looks stable for me. I've also done a simple test of splice.
Thanks; I just passed these patches through my testsuite and things are working fine. I'll review them in some time.
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