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Message-Id: <1158069868.6780.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:04:27 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Sergei Organov <osv@...ad.com>
Cc: Andrew Bird <ajb@...eresystems.co.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spinlock debugging
Ar Maw, 2006-09-12 am 17:31 +0400, ysgrifennodd Sergei Organov:
> Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> [...]
> > So all you need in your IRQ handler is
> >
> > if (tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buf, size))
> > tty_flip_buffer_push(tty);
>
> What is the purpose of the "if" in the above code? is push with no data
> in the buffer dangerous? Or is it just optimization of
> almost-never-taken path? ;)
Sorry..replied to sender only
It's an optimisation and you are right it may well not even be worth
doing
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