Re: [PATCH v4 00/24] lockless n_tty receive path

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:32:10PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> 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.

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h
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