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Message-ID: <568BE238.8010204@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:33:12 -0500 From: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com> To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Pierre Paul MINGOT <mingot.pierre@...il.com>, jslaby@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add possibility to set /dev/tty number On 2016-01-05 10:24, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:16:52AM -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: >>> And those embedded devices can almost certainly save more by just not >>> including the vt layer. >> And a few pages can make a difference on _any_ device, not just an embedded >> system. For a purpose specific system, that can be the difference between >> fitting the working set in memory and having to hit swap space. > > No one has proven any memory savings yet, so why are you saying this is > noticable? I didn't mean to imply that the VT subsystem itself was necessarily responsible for any space savings, I simply intended to point out that savings of a few pages can make a difference. On that note though, I think I've got something that should work to check this across a couple of different configurations, so I'll hopefully have results soon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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