Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.

Antonino A. Daplas
2006-08-06T23:46:48Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair.
>> This patch turns that into a single allocation.
>>
>> This allocation was the most frequent kmalloc I saw on my test box.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
>>
>>
>> --- linux-2.6.14/drivers/video/console/softcursor.c~ 2005-12-28 18:40:08.000000000 -0500
>> +++ linux-2.6.14/drivers/video/console/softcursor.c 2005-12-28 18:45:50.000000000 -0500
>> @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ int soft_cursor(struct fb_info *info, st
>> unsigned int buf_align = info->pixmap.buf_align - 1;
>> unsigned int i, size, dsize, s_pitch, d_pitch;
>> struct fb_image *image;
>> - u8 *dst, *src;
>> + u8 *dst;
>> + static u8 *src=NULL;
>> + static int allocsize=0;
>>
>
> Spaces around = ? And perhaps it does not need to be initialized when
> it is static?
>

I already sent an updated patch, so your concerns are gone.

Tony