Re: [RFC][PATCHv6 00/12] printk: introduce printing kernel thread

Tejun Heo
2018-01-09T22:17:10Z

Hello, Steven.

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:08:47PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> The scenario you listed would affect multiple CPUs and multiple CPUs
> would be flooding printk. In that case my patch WILL help. Because the
> current method, the first CPU to do the printk will get stuck doing the
> printk for ALL OTHER CPUs. With my patch, the printk load will migrate
> around and there will not be a single CPU that is stuck.

Maybe it can break out eventually but that can take a really long
time. It's OOM. Most of userland is waiting for reclaim. There
isn't all that much going on outside that and there can only be one
CPU which is OOMing. The kernel isn't gonna be all that chatty.

Thanks.

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tejun