linux-kernel - [PATCH v5 06/14] serial: liteuart: move tty_flip_buffer

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Message-Id: <20221118145512.509950-7-gsomlo@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:55:04 -0500
From:   Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@...il.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        jirislaby@...nel.org, kgugala@...micro.com, mholenko@...micro.com,
        joel@....id.au, david.abdurachmanov@...il.com,
        florent@...oy-digital.fr, geert@...ux-m68k.org,
        ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [PATCH v5 06/14] serial: liteuart: move tty_flip_buffer_push() out of rx loop

Calling tty_flip_buffer_push() for each individual received character
is overkill. Move it out of the rx loop, and only call it once per
set of characters received together.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Somlo <gsomlo@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c
index 1e3429bcc2ad..81a86c5eb393 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/liteuart.c
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ static void liteuart_timer(struct timer_list *t)
 		/* no overflow bits in status */
 		if (!(uart_handle_sysrq_char(port, ch)))
 			uart_insert_char(port, status, 0, ch, flg);
-
-		tty_flip_buffer_push(&port->state->port);
 	}
 
+	tty_flip_buffer_push(&port->state->port);
+
 	mod_timer(&uart->timer, jiffies + uart_poll_timeout(port));
 }
 
-- 
2.38.1