Re: printk discussions at KS

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Thu Nov 02 2017 - 08:45:53 EST


On Wed 2017-11-01 19:12:23, Joe Perches wrote:
> As I was not there, and I know about as much as anyone
> about printk internals, can you please post a recap of
> what was discussed, technical and other, about printk
> improvements at the kernel-summit?
>
> If there was a pdf/powerpoint, that'd be nice to post too.

There is a nice summary of the discussion at
https://lwn.net/Articles/737822/

In short, it is the old problem with possible soft-lockups.
There were send many variants of a solution based on offloading
and kthreads. We discussed yet another solution proposed
by Steven.

Best Regards,
Petr