From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Hurley Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/24] lockless n_tty receive path Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:32:10 -0400 Message-ID: <51BF724A.505@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1366039168-8510-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <1371302076-4688-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <20130617200138.GA8199@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailout39.mail01.mtsvc.net ([216.70.64.83]:34442 "EHLO n12.mail01.mtsvc.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751486Ab3FQUcR (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:32:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20130617200138.GA8199@kroah.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby On 06/17/2013 04:01 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 09:14:12AM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: >> Greg, >> >> As before, this patchset is dependent on the 'ldsem patchset'. >> The reason is that this series abandons tty->receive_room as >> a flow control mechanism (because that requires locking), >> and the TIOCSETD ioctl _without ldsem_ uses tty->receive_room >> to shutoff i/o. >> >> It is also dependent on 'n_tty fixes' which I recently resent >> to you. > > Thanks for rebasing all of this, and resending it. It's late in the > 3.11 development cycle, so I'm going to wait unto 3.11-rc1 is out to > queue it up for 3.12, to get it lots of testing in linux-next. Thanks Greg. I actually meant to suggest these be held until after the merge window but I got distracted by the VT1 deallocation bug report. Regards, Peter Hurley