Re: locking changes in tty broke low latency feature

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> This is a complete pointless test. Use a bog standard 8250 UART on the
> PC and connect a microcontroller on the other end which serves you an
> continous stream of data at 115200 Baud.
> 
> There is no way you can keep up with that without the low latency
> option neither on old and nor on new machines if you have enough other
> stuff going on in the system.

Sorry but having done this in the past the reverse is true. On ancient
machines with crap uarts the low_latency case would routinely overrun
while the non low_latency case did not. That was half of the point of
deferred processing - it pushed tty processing out of the IRQ handler so
bytes were not lost and a 486DX could cope with a 56Kbit modem.

Alan
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