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Commit cee4ad1e authored by Ivo Sieben's avatar Ivo Sieben Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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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: default avatarIvo Sieben <meltedpianoman@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent daee7797
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