Commit 8c1fb49b authored by Peter Hurley's avatar Peter Hurley Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Avoid false-sharing flip buffer ptrs

Separate the head and tail ptrs to avoid cache-line contention
(so called 'false-sharing') between concurrent threads.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent d7a68be4
......@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ static inline char *flag_buf_ptr(struct tty_buffer *b, int ofs)
struct tty_bufhead {
struct tty_buffer *head; /* Queue head */
struct work_struct work;
struct mutex flush_mutex;
struct tty_buffer sentinel;
struct tty_buffer *head; /* Queue head */
struct tty_buffer *tail; /* Active buffer */
struct llist_head free; /* Free queue head */
atomic_t memory_used; /* In-use buffers excluding free list */
struct tty_buffer *tail; /* Active buffer */
};
/*
* When a break, frame error, or parity error happens, these codes are
......
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