Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750947AbWHAS40 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:56:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750964AbWHAS40 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:56:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:6597 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938AbWHAS4Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:56:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 14:56:18 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Linux Kernel Subject: use persistent allocation for cursor blinking. Message-ID: <20060801185618.GS22240@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1763 Lines: 56 Every time the console cursor blinks, we do a kmalloc/kfree pair. This patch turns that into a single allocation. This allocation was the most frequent kmalloc I saw on my test box. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones --- linux-2.6.14/drivers/video/console/softcursor.c~ 2005-12-28 18:40:08.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.14/drivers/video/console/softcursor.c 2005-12-28 18:45:50.000000000 -0500 @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ int soft_cursor(struct fb_info *info, st unsigned int buf_align = info->pixmap.buf_align - 1; unsigned int i, size, dsize, s_pitch, d_pitch; struct fb_image *image; - u8 *dst, *src; + u8 *dst; + static u8 *src=NULL; + static int allocsize=0; if (info->state != FBINFO_STATE_RUNNING) return 0; @@ -31,9 +33,15 @@ int soft_cursor(struct fb_info *info, st s_pitch = (cursor->image.width + 7) >> 3; dsize = s_pitch * cursor->image.height; - src = kmalloc(dsize + sizeof(struct fb_image), GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!src) - return -ENOMEM; + if (dsize + sizeof(struct fb_image) != allocsize) { + if (src != NULL) + kfree(src); + allocsize = dsize + sizeof(struct fb_image); + + src = kmalloc(allocsize, GFP_ATOMIC); + if (!src) + return -ENOMEM; + } image = (struct fb_image *) (src + dsize); *image = cursor->image; @@ -61,7 +69,6 @@ int soft_cursor(struct fb_info *info, st fb_pad_aligned_buffer(dst, d_pitch, src, s_pitch, image->height); image->data = dst; info->fbops->fb_imageblit(info, image); - kfree(src); return 0; } -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/