Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] printk: Console owner and waiter logic cleanup

Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-01-18T05:43:58Z

On (01/17/18 12:05), Tejun Heo wrote:
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> > This could very well be a great place to force offloading. If a printk
> > is called from within a printk, at the same context (normal, softirq,
> > irq or NMI), then we should trigger the offloading.
>
> I was thinking more of a timeout based approach (ie. if stuck for
> longer than X or X messages, offload)

yep, that's what I want. for a whole bunch of different reasons.

-ss