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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:50:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Serial device with very large buffer
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> >   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

1K flip buffer makes the tty_struct exceed 4096 bytes, and I don't think,
it's a good idea to change the allocation mechanism for it.

-- 
Alex

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