tty: prevent unnecessary work queue lock checking on flip buffer copy

When low_latency flag is set the TTY receive flip buffer is copied to the
line discipline directly instead of using a work queue in the background.
Therefor only in case a workqueue is actually used for copying data to the
line discipline we'll have to flush the workqueue.

This prevents unnecessary spin lock/unlock on the workqueue spin lock that
can cause additional scheduling overhead on a PREEMPT_RT system. On a 200
MHz AT91SAM9261 processor setup this fixes about 100us of scheduling
overhead on the TTY read call.

Signed-off-by: Ivo Sieben <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c

@@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_insert_flip_string_flags);
  *	Takes any pending buffers and transfers their ownership to the
  *	ldisc side of the queue. It then schedules those characters for
  *	processing by the line discipline.
+ *	Note that this function can only be used when the low_latency flag
+ *	is unset. Otherwise the workqueue won't be flushed.
  *
  *	Locking: Takes tty->buf.lock
  */
@@ -514,7 +516,8 @@ static void flush_to_ldisc(struct work_struct *work)
  */
 void tty_flush_to_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
-	flush_work(&tty->buf.work);
+	if (!tty->low_latency)
+		flush_work(&tty->buf.work);
 }
 
 /**