From cee4ad1ed90a0959fc29f9d30a2526e5e9522cfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ivo Sieben Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:02:05 +0200 Subject: tty: prevent unnecessary work queue lock checking on flip buffer copy When low_latency flag is set the TTY receive flip buffer is copied to the line discipline directly instead of using a work queue in the background. Therefor only in case a workqueue is actually used for copying data to the line discipline we'll have to flush the workqueue. This prevents unnecessary spin lock/unlock on the workqueue spin lock that can cause additional scheduling overhead on a PREEMPT_RT system. On a 200 MHz AT91SAM9261 processor setup this fixes about 100us of scheduling overhead on the TTY read call. Signed-off-by: Ivo Sieben Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers') diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c index 91e326ffe7db..8b00f6a34a7d 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c @@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_insert_flip_string_flags); * Takes any pending buffers and transfers their ownership to the * ldisc side of the queue. It then schedules those characters for * processing by the line discipline. + * Note that this function can only be used when the low_latency flag + * is unset. Otherwise the workqueue won't be flushed. * * Locking: Takes tty->buf.lock */ @@ -514,7 +516,8 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work) */ void tty_flush_to_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty) { - flush_work(&tty->buf.work); + if (!tty->low_latency) + flush_work(&tty->buf.work); } /** -- cgit v1.2.3