From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 15:31:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060801193129.GV22240@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adairlc5ktk.fsf@cisco.com>
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 12:15:35PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > 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?
It's all called under the console_sem iirc.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 19:31 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 [this message]
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
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