n_tty: Fix PARMRK over-throttling
authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:05:38 +0000 (15:05 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:11:26 +0000 (10:11 -0800)
If PARMRK is enabled, the available read buffer space computation is
overly-pessimistic, which results in severely throttled i/o, even
in the absence of parity errors. For example, if the 4k read buffer
contains 1k processed data, the input worker will compute available
space of 333 bytes, despite 3k being available. At 1365 chars of
processed data, 0 space available is computed.

*Divide remaining space* by 3, truncating down (if left == 2, left = 0).

Reported-by: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@omicron.at>
Conflicts:
drivers/tty/n_tty.c

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/n_tty.c

index f63b25bbe8958c77baaf11c0cbeed7884f4f945b..7aeabb7195268681e303551e94ebc19f30d710ed 100644 (file)
@@ -1669,9 +1669,8 @@ n_tty_receive_buf_common(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *cp,
 
        while (1) {
                /*
-                * When PARMRK is set, multiply read_cnt by 3, since each byte
-                * might take up to three times as many spaces (depending on
-                * its flags, e.g. parity error). [This calculation is wrong.]
+                * When PARMRK is set, each input char may take up to 3 chars
+                * in the read buf; reduce the buffer space avail by 3x
                 *
                 * If we are doing input canonicalization, and there are no
                 * pending newlines, let characters through without limit, so
@@ -1683,13 +1682,10 @@ n_tty_receive_buf_common(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *cp,
                 * read_tail (so this producer will not overwrite unread data)
                 */
                size_t tail = smp_load_acquire(&ldata->read_tail);
-               size_t head = ldata->read_head;
 
+               room = N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - (ldata->read_head - tail) - 1;
                if (I_PARMRK(tty))
-                       room = N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - (head - tail) * 3 - 1;
-               else
-                       room = N_TTY_BUF_SIZE - (head - tail) - 1;
-
+                       room /= 3;
                if (room <= 0)
                        room = ldata->icanon && ldata->canon_head == tail;