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vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"

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During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of
vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace
uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless.

A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the
work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers:
  $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
  real    0m1.142s
  user    0m0.015s
  sys     0m0.540s

If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the
tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what
the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers:
  $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done
  real    0m0.152s
  user    0m0.030s
  sys     0m0.072s

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Kay Sievers 2009-03-09 14:18:52 +01:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent ce21c7bcd7
commit 4995f8ef9d
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include/linux/console.h
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@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ extern void resume_console(void);
int mda_console_init(void);
void prom_con_init(void);
void vcs_make_sysfs(struct tty_struct *tty);
void vcs_remove_sysfs(struct tty_struct *tty);
void vcs_make_sysfs(int index);
void vcs_remove_sysfs(int index);
/* Some debug stub to catch some of the obvious races in the VT code */
#if 1