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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 08/25] printk: add ring buffer and kthread
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 15:51:06 +0900
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On (03/07/19 15:41), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> This sounds concerning. IMHO, netconsole is too important to rely
> on preemptible printk and scheduler. Especially those netcons which
> run in "report only when oops_in_progress" mode. Sometimes netconsole
> is the fastest console available, but preemptible printk may turn it
> into the slowest one.

+ oops may end by the time kthread becomes active.

	-ss