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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	rdunlap@infradead.org, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next v3 0/8] netconsole: Add support for CPU population
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:02:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d441f627-1686-40fa-80cb-e84c590b8b02@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250124-netcon_cpu-v3-0-12a0d286ba1d@debian.org>

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 07:16:39AM -0800, Breno Leitao wrote:
> The current implementation of netconsole sends all log messages in
> parallel, which can lead to an intermixed and interleaved output on the
> receiving side. This makes it challenging to demultiplex the messages
> and attribute them to their originating CPUs.
> 
> As a result, users and developers often struggle to effectively analyze
> and debug the parallel log output received through netconsole.

I know very little about consoles and netconsle, so this is probably a
silly question:

Why is this a netconsole problem, and not a generic console problem?

Can other console types also send in parallel? Do they have the same
issue of intermixing?

	Andrew
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-01-24 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-24 15:16 [PATCH RFC net-next v3 0/8] netconsole: Add support for CPU population Breno Leitao
2025-01-24 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 1/8] netconsole: consolidate send buffers into netconsole_target struct Breno Leitao
2025-01-28 16:11   ` Simon Horman
2025-01-30 10:35     ` Simon Horman
2025-01-31 13:11       ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-24 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 2/8] netconsole: Rename userdata to extradata Breno Leitao
2025-01-30 10:36   ` Simon Horman
2025-01-24 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 3/8] netconsole: Helper to count number of used entries Breno Leitao
2025-01-30 10:37   ` Simon Horman
2025-01-24 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 4/8] netconsole: Introduce configfs helpers for sysdata features Breno Leitao
2025-01-28 16:12   ` Simon Horman
2025-01-30 10:37     ` Simon Horman
2025-01-24 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 5/8] netconsole: Include sysdata in extradata entry count Breno Leitao
2025-01-30 10:38   ` Simon Horman
2025-01-24 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 6/8] netconsole: add support for sysdata and CPU population Breno Leitao
2025-01-30 10:38   ` Simon Horman
2025-01-24 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 7/8] netconsole: selftest: test for sysdata CPU Breno Leitao
2025-01-30 10:38   ` Simon Horman
2025-01-24 15:16 ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 8/8] netconsole: docs: Add documentation for CPU number auto-population Breno Leitao
2025-01-24 16:15   ` Andrew Lunn
2025-01-27 17:10     ` Breno Leitao
2025-01-24 16:02 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2025-01-27  9:52   ` [PATCH RFC net-next v3 0/8] netconsole: Add support for CPU population Breno Leitao

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