Re: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking.

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

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?

							Pavel
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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