From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:15:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adairlc5ktk.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060801185618.GS22240@redhat.com> (Dave Jones's message of "Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:56:18 -0400")
> Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.
> This patch turns that into a single allocation.
A naive 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?
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 19:15 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 [this message]
2006-08-01 19:31 ` Dave Jones
2006-08-01 22:20 ` Alan Cox
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=adairlc5ktk.fsf@cisco.com \
--to=rdreier@cisco.com \
--cc=davej@redhat.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.