Re: [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix

Paul Fulghum wrote:

Alan Cox wrote:

Thats going to hurt memory consumption in the worst cases.

I'll gather some accounting info tomorrow,
and consider the more pathological cases.

Now that I think about it (ow!), there is a simple way
to cap the memory penalty to a single extra buffer allocation
and still maintain the existing interface behavior.

I'll post a new patch tomorrow.

Thanks,
Paul

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