Re: [PATCH] printk: support structured and multi-facility logmessages

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 21:59 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: printk: support structured and multi-facility log messages
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> This patch extends printk() to be able to attach arbitrary key/value
> pairs to logged messages,

How does it do that?

[]

> - Records consume almost the same amount, sometimes less memory than
>   the traditional byte stream buffer (if printk_time is enabled). The record
>   header is 16 bytes long, plus some padding bytes at the end if needed.
>   The byte-stream buffer needed 3 chars for the syslog prefix, 15 char for
>   the timestamp and a newline.

I suggest using lzo on the string portion.


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