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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:20:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1154470813.15540.95.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adairlc5ktk.fsf@cisco.com>

Ar Maw, 2006-08-01 am 12:15 -0700, ysgrifennodd Roland Dreier:
>  > Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.
>  > This patch turns that into a single allocation.
> 
> A naiive question from someone who knows nothing about this subsystem:
> is there any possibility of concurrent calls into this function, for
> example if there are multiple cursors on a multiheaded system?

We don't do console multihead so its basically OK. Moving all the
console globals into a struct so we can have multiple instances would be
a good thing [tm] and it would make sense for the variable to end up in
said structure if it was done.

Definitely a janitor job there.

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-01 18:56 use persistent allocation for cursor blinking Dave Jones
2006-08-01 19:15 ` Roland Dreier
2006-08-01 19:31   ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 22:20   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-08-02  1:20     ` [PATCH] fbcon: Use " Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-02  1:28       ` [PATCH RESEND] " Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-02  1:28       ` [PATCH] " Dave Jones
2006-08-01 22:17 ` use " Alan Cox
2006-08-01 22:39   ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 23:12     ` Alan Cox
2006-08-05 21:26 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-06 23:46   ` Antonino A. Daplas

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