Re: [PATCH] Use tty_schedule in VT code.

[James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>]

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> > 
> > The scheduling is to move the processing out of interrupt context.
> > The receive data is often extracted from the hardware
> > at interrupt time and then queued for processing.
> 
> You misunderstand.
> 
> If the "delay" is zero, then why are you using "delayed" workqueues at 
> all?
> 
> A delay of zero tends to be pointless. It's not a delay at all, and you 
> could just use the regular NON-DELAYING workqueues.

Because sometimes you do want the delay. In other parts of the tty 
code we do delay. What should be done is 

        if (tty->low_latency)
                flush_to_ldisc(&tty->buf.work.work);
        else
                schedule_delayed_work(&tty->buf.work, 1);

Is this acceptable to you?

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