Re: Spinlock debugging

[Alan Cox]

Ar Maw, 2006-09-12 am 17:31 +0400, ysgrifennodd Sergei Organov:
> Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> [...]
> > So all you need in your IRQ handler is
> >
> > 	if (tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buf, size))
> > 		tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
> 
> What is the purpose of the "if" in the above code?  is push with no data
> in the buffer dangerous? Or is it just optimization of
> almost-never-taken path? ;)

Sorry..replied to sender only

It's an optimisation and you are right it may well not even be worth
doing

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