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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 19:17:32 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 19:17:32 -0400
commitf23eb2b2b28547fc70df82dd5049eb39bec5ba12 (patch)
tree144dce462b34d8a232a06f766786ebfb0235fa87 /drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
parentf741a79e982cf56d7584435bad663553ffe6715f (diff)
tty: stop using "delayed_work" in the tty layer
Using delayed-work for tty flip buffers ends up causing us to wait for the next tick to complete some actions. That's usually not all that noticeable, but for certain latency-critical workloads it ends up being totally unacceptable. As an extreme case of this, passing a token back-and-forth over a pty will take two ticks per iteration, so even just a thousand iterations will take 8 seconds assuming a common 250Hz configuration. Avoiding the whole delayed work issue brings that ping-pong test-case down to 0.009s on my machine. In more practical terms, this latency has been a performance problem for things like dive computer simulators (simulating the serial interface using the ptys) and for other environments (Alan mentions a CP/M emulator). Reported-by: Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@telenet.be> Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
index d8210ca00720..b9451219528b 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ void tty_schedule_flip(struct tty_struct *tty)
322 if (tty->buf.tail != NULL) 322 if (tty->buf.tail != NULL)
323 tty->buf.tail->commit = tty->buf.tail->used; 323 tty->buf.tail->commit = tty->buf.tail->used;
324 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags); 324 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
325 schedule_delayed_work(&tty->buf.work, 1); 325 schedule_work(&tty->buf.work);
326} 326}
327EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_schedule_flip); 327EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_schedule_flip);
328 328
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_prepare_flip_string_flags);
402static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work) 402static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work)
403{ 403{
404 struct tty_struct *tty = 404 struct tty_struct *tty =
405 container_of(work, struct tty_struct, buf.work.work); 405 container_of(work, struct tty_struct, buf.work);
406 unsigned long flags; 406 unsigned long flags;
407 struct tty_ldisc *disc; 407 struct tty_ldisc *disc;
408 408
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work)
443 if (test_bit(TTY_FLUSHPENDING, &tty->flags)) 443 if (test_bit(TTY_FLUSHPENDING, &tty->flags))
444 break; 444 break;
445 if (!tty->receive_room || seen_tail) { 445 if (!tty->receive_room || seen_tail) {
446 schedule_delayed_work(&tty->buf.work, 1); 446 schedule_work(&tty->buf.work);
447 break; 447 break;
448 } 448 }
449 if (count > tty->receive_room) 449 if (count > tty->receive_room)
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work)
481 */ 481 */
482void tty_flush_to_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty) 482void tty_flush_to_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty)
483{ 483{
484 flush_delayed_work(&tty->buf.work); 484 flush_work(&tty->buf.work);
485} 485}
486 486
487/** 487/**
@@ -506,9 +506,9 @@ void tty_flip_buffer_push(struct tty_struct *tty)
506 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags); 506 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty->buf.lock, flags);
507 507
508 if (tty->low_latency) 508 if (tty->low_latency)
509 flush_to_ldisc(&tty->buf.work.work); 509 flush_to_ldisc(&tty->buf.work);
510 else 510 else
511 schedule_delayed_work(&tty->buf.work, 1); 511 schedule_work(&tty->buf.work);
512} 512}
513EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_flip_buffer_push); 513EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_flip_buffer_push);
514 514
@@ -529,6 +529,6 @@ void tty_buffer_init(struct tty_struct *tty)
529 tty->buf.tail = NULL; 529 tty->buf.tail = NULL;
530 tty->buf.free = NULL; 530 tty->buf.free = NULL;
531 tty->buf.memory_used = 0; 531 tty->buf.memory_used = 0;
532 INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&tty->buf.work, flush_to_ldisc); 532 INIT_WORK(&tty->buf.work, flush_to_ldisc);
533} 533}
534 534