Re: How to avoid serial port buffer overruns?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Aug 17 2006 - 04:59:34 EST


Ar Iau, 2006-08-17 am 00:10 +0100, ysgrifennodd Russell King:
> MIDI uses its own driver - sound/drivers/serial-u16550.c. My guess

How peculiar

> is there's something in the system starving interrupt servicing.
> Serial is very sensitive to that, and increases in other system
> latencies tends to have an adverse impact on serial.

I see no support for the 16650 specific bits in the driver, so that
alone may be a problem ?

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