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Re: [RFC][PATCH v6 0/2] printk: Make printk() completely async

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Hi,

On Tue 22-03-16 02:25:28, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>  The patch set is based on slightly updated Jan Kara's patches.
> 
> This patch set makes printk() completely asynchronous: new messages
> are getting upended to the kernel printk buffer, but instead of 'direct'
> printing the actual print job is performed by a dedicated kthread.
> This has the advantage that printing always happens from a schedulable
> context and thus we don't lockup any particular CPU or even interrupts.
> 
> The patch set is against next-20160321
> 
> the series in total has 3 patches:
> - printk: Make printk() completely async
> - printk: Make wake_up_klogd_work_func() async
> - printk: make console_unlock() async
> 
> per discussion, "printk: make console_unlock() async" will be posted
> later on.

Patches look good to me. I don't think you need to mention the
console_unlock() async patch when it is not part of the series.  BTW, you
seemed to have dropped my patch to skip if there are too many buffered
messages when oops is in progress. Any reason for that?

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

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[RFC][PATCH v6 0/2] printk: Make printk() completely async Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 18:30 +0100
  Re: [RFC][PATCH v6 0/2] printk: Make printk() completely async Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-03-22 07:50 +0100
    Re: [RFC][PATCH v6 0/2] printk: Make printk() completely async Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 09:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC][PATCH v6 0/2] printk: Make printk() completely async Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2016-03-22 09:20 +0100

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