Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:52:28 -0700 | From | Tim Bird <> | Subject | Re: IRQ off latency of printk is very high |
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Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > It might help to read this thread I posted on LKML in January 2006 > explaining the problem, which led to some discussion about the issue. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/3/48
This is very helpful. Jon Smirl's answer seems to give the rationale for supporting printk output in interrupt context. I'm not sure, however, if extending the interrupt off period to cover the console output is required. It didn't until Ingo changed it in 2.6.17. Maybe this was intentional to allow printk output to drain before another (printk in interrupt context) could even possibly be generated, but it seems like overkill.
I'll continue looking at this. It helps a lot to know about the issues discussed in the prior thread.
Thanks, -- Tim
============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America =============================
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