On (Tue) 25 Sep 2012 [15:47:14], sjur.brandel...@stericsson.com wrote:
> From: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandel...@stericsson.com>
>
> I thought rebasing rproc_serial to linux-next was going to be trivial.
> But when starting the merge I realized that I had to refactor the
> the patches from Masami Hiramatsu. The splice support has the same issue
> as I faced, with different type of buffers in the out_vq.
> So I ended up refactoring the splice functionality. The code
> size got smaller so hopefully this a step in the right direction.
>
> This refactoring also make introduction of rproc_serial cleaner.
>
> As requested I also added a patch for not initializing buffers.
>
> I have tested the VIRTIO_CONSOLE device by looping large amount of data
> through character device and tty, with lockdep and slub-debug on.
> This looks stable for me. I've also done a simple test of splice.
Thanks; I just passed these patches through my testsuite and things
are working fine. I'll review them in some time.
Amit
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