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tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag The USB drivers often want to insert a series of bytes all with the same flag set - provide a helper for this case. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-18 16:43:54 +00:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag The USB drivers often want to insert a series of bytes all with the same flag set - provide a helper for this case. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-18 16:43:54 +00:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty: fix obsolete comment on tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag Comment was not updated when tty_insert_flip_string was generalised. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-07 19:58:32 +02:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag The USB drivers often want to insert a series of bytes all with the same flag set - provide a helper for this case. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-18 16:43:54 +00:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty_buffer: Fix distinct type warning CC drivers/char/tty_buffer.o drivers/char/tty_buffer.c: In function ‘tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag’: drivers/char/tty_buffer.c:251: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast drivers/char/tty_buffer.c: In function ‘tty_insert_flip_string_flags’: drivers/char/tty_buffer.c:288: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast Fix it by replacing min() with min_t() in tty_insert_flip_string_flags and tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag(). Signed-off-by: Fang Wenqi <antonf@turbolinux.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-09 18:54:28 +08:00
tty: Keep the default buffering to sub-page units We allocate during interrupts so while our buffering is normally diced up small anyway on some hardware at speed we can pressure the VM excessively for page pairs. We don't really need big buffers to be linear so don't try so hard. In order to make this work well we will tidy up excess callers to request_room, which cannot itself enforce this break up. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-18 16:43:47 +00:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag The USB drivers often want to insert a series of bytes all with the same flag set - provide a helper for this case. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-18 16:43:54 +00:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
USB: tty: Add a function to insert a string of characters with the same flag The USB drivers often want to insert a series of bytes all with the same flag set - provide a helper for this case. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-18 16:43:54 +00:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty_buffer: Fix distinct type warning CC drivers/char/tty_buffer.o drivers/char/tty_buffer.c: In function ‘tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag’: drivers/char/tty_buffer.c:251: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast drivers/char/tty_buffer.c: In function ‘tty_insert_flip_string_flags’: drivers/char/tty_buffer.c:288: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast Fix it by replacing min() with min_t() in tty_insert_flip_string_flags and tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag(). Signed-off-by: Fang Wenqi <antonf@turbolinux.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-09 18:54:28 +08:00
tty: Keep the default buffering to sub-page units We allocate during interrupts so while our buffering is normally diced up small anyway on some hardware at speed we can pressure the VM excessively for page pairs. We don't really need big buffers to be linear so don't try so hard. In order to make this work well we will tidy up excess callers to request_room, which cannot itself enforce this break up. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-18 16:43:47 +00:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for the next tick to complete some actions. That's usually not all that noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being totally unacceptable. As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration. Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case down to 0.009s on my machine. In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator). Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 16:17:32 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for the next tick to complete some actions. That's usually not all that noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being totally unacceptable. As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration. Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case down to 0.009s on my machine. In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator). Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 16:17:32 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
Make flush_to_ldisc properly handle parallel calls
2009-10-14 08:59:49 -07:00
tty_buffer: get rid of 'seen_tail' logic in flush_to_ldisc The flush_to_ldisc() work entry has special logic to notice when it has seen the original tail of the data queue, and it avoids continuing the flush if it sees that _original_ tail rather than the current tail. This logic can trigger in case somebody is constantly adding new data to the tty while the flushing is active - and the intent is to avoid excessive CPU usage while flushing the tty, especially as we used to do this from a softirq context which made it non-preemptible. However, since we no longer re-arm the work-queue from within itself (because that causes other trouble: see commit a5660b41af6a "tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up"), this just leads to possible hung tty's (most easily seen in SMP and with a test-program that floods a pty with data - nobody seems to have reported this for any real-life situation yet). And since the workqueue isn't done from timers and softirq's any more, it's doubtful whether the CPU useage issue is really relevant any more. So just remove the logic entirely, and see if anybody ever notices. Alternatively, we might want to re-introduce the "re-arm the work" for just this case, but then we'd have to re-introduce the delayed work model or some explicit timer, which really doesn't seem worth it for this. Reported-and-tested-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-08 07:46:30 -07:00
Make flush_to_ldisc properly handle parallel calls
2009-10-14 08:59:49 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
Make flush_to_ldisc properly handle parallel calls
2009-10-14 08:59:49 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty_buffer: get rid of 'seen_tail' logic in flush_to_ldisc The flush_to_ldisc() work entry has special logic to notice when it has seen the original tail of the data queue, and it avoids continuing the flush if it sees that _original_ tail rather than the current tail. This logic can trigger in case somebody is constantly adding new data to the tty while the flushing is active - and the intent is to avoid excessive CPU usage while flushing the tty, especially as we used to do this from a softirq context which made it non-preemptible. However, since we no longer re-arm the work-queue from within itself (because that causes other trouble: see commit a5660b41af6a "tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up"), this just leads to possible hung tty's (most easily seen in SMP and with a test-program that floods a pty with data - nobody seems to have reported this for any real-life situation yet). And since the workqueue isn't done from timers and softirq's any more, it's doubtful whether the CPU useage issue is really relevant any more. So just remove the logic entirely, and see if anybody ever notices. Alternatively, we might want to re-introduce the "re-arm the work" for just this case, but then we'd have to re-introduce the delayed work model or some explicit timer, which really doesn't seem worth it for this. Reported-and-tested-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-08 07:46:30 -07:00
Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received" This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c. It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues. It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up"). It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf() function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code, and didn't actually check for the error in the caller. And it didn't actually work at all. BenH bisected down odd tty behavior to it: "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X server for me, possibly related to PTYs. For example, cat'ing a large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace data in the quoted bits further down). ... Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer process that could have emptied the PTY." which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a. Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com> Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-04 06:33:24 +09:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received" This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c. It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues. It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up"). It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf() function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code, and didn't actually check for the error in the caller. And it didn't actually work at all. BenH bisected down odd tty behavior to it: "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X server for me, possibly related to PTYs. For example, cat'ing a large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace data in the quoted bits further down). ... Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer process that could have emptied the PTY." which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a. Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com> Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-04 06:33:24 +09:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
Revert "tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received" This reverts commit b1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c. It was broken in so many ways, and results in random odd pty issues. It re-introduced the buggy schedule_work() in flush_to_ldisc() that can cause endless work-loops (see commit a5660b41af6a: "tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up"). It also used an "unsigned int" return value fo the ->receive_buf() function, but then made multiple functions return a negative error code, and didn't actually check for the error in the caller. And it didn't actually work at all. BenH bisected down odd tty behavior to it: "It looks like the patch is causing some major malfunctions of the X server for me, possibly related to PTYs. For example, cat'ing a large file in a gnome terminal hangs the kernel for -minutes- in a loop of what looks like flush_to_ldisc/workqueue code, (some ftrace data in the quoted bits further down). ... Some more data: It -looks- like what happens is that the flush_to_ldisc work queue entry constantly re-queues itself (because the PTY is full ?) and the workqueue thread will basically loop forver calling it without ever scheduling, thus starving the consumer process that could have emptied the PTY." which is pretty much exactly the problem we fixed in a5660b41af6a. Milton Miller pointed out the 'unsigned int' issue. Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reported-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com> Cc: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-04 06:33:24 +09:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
Make flush_to_ldisc properly handle parallel calls
2009-10-14 08:59:49 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
Make flush_to_ldisc properly handle parallel calls
2009-10-14 08:59:49 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
pty: avoid forcing 'low_latency' tty flag We really don't want to mark the pty as a low-latency device, because as Alan points out, the ->write method can be called from an IRQ (ppp?), and that means we can't use ->low_latency=1 as we take mutexes in the low_latency case. So rather than using low_latency to force the written data to be pushed to the ldisc handling at 'write()' time, just make the reader side (or the poll function) do the flush when it checks whether there is data to be had. This also fixes the problem with lost data in an emacs compile buffer (bugzilla 13815), and we can thus revert the low_latency pty hack (commit 3a54297478e6578f96fd54bf4daa1751130aca86: "pty: quickfix for the pty ENXIO timing problems"). Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Modified to do the tty_flush_to_ldisc() inside input_available_p() so that it triggers for both read and poll() - Linus] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 12:15:56 -07:00
tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for the next tick to complete some actions. That's usually not all that noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being totally unacceptable. As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration. Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case down to 0.009s on my machine. In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator). Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 16:17:32 -07:00
pty: avoid forcing 'low_latency' tty flag We really don't want to mark the pty as a low-latency device, because as Alan points out, the ->write method can be called from an IRQ (ppp?), and that means we can't use ->low_latency=1 as we take mutexes in the low_latency case. So rather than using low_latency to force the written data to be pushed to the ldisc handling at 'write()' time, just make the reader side (or the poll function) do the flush when it checks whether there is data to be had. This also fixes the problem with lost data in an emacs compile buffer (bugzilla 13815), and we can thus revert the low_latency pty hack (commit 3a54297478e6578f96fd54bf4daa1751130aca86: "pty: quickfix for the pty ENXIO timing problems"). Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ Modified to do the tty_flush_to_ldisc() inside input_available_p() so that it triggers for both read and poll() - Linus] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 12:15:56 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for the next tick to complete some actions. That's usually not all that noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being totally unacceptable. As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration. Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case down to 0.009s on my machine. In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator). Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 16:17:32 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for the next tick to complete some actions. That's usually not all that noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being totally unacceptable. As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration. Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case down to 0.009s on my machine. In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator). Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 16:17:32 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00
tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for the next tick to complete some actions. That's usually not all that noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being totally unacceptable. As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration. Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case down to 0.009s on my machine. In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator). Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 16:17:32 -07:00
tty: split the buffering from tty_io The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 10:36:58 +01:00