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Subject: Re: Serial device with very large buffer
To: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (Alex Belits)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:45:23 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
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>   I also propose to increase the size of flip buffer to 640 bytes (so the
> flipping won't occur every time in the middle of the full buffer), however
> I understand that it's a rather drastic change for such a simple goal, and
> not everyone will agree that it's worth the trouble:

Going to a 1K flip buffer would make sense IMHO for high speed devices too

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