On Tue 2015-04-28 10:10:14, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, Petr. > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:42:44AM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote: > > Note that cont buffer is only a memory optimization. You could put > > every text snippet into the ring buffer and console immediately. > > You need to set LOG_CONT instead of LOG_NEWLINE flag. This is > > already used when the line is too long for the cont buffer or > > when there is printed a message from another cpu in the middle > > of a continuing message. > > Yeah, hmmm, I wonder whether the right solution here is to bypass cont > buffer if ext_console is present. This would use a bit more memory > and hurt users catting /proc/kmsg but everyone else should be able to > get the same result and things get a lot simpler on both sending and > receiving sides. What do you think?
I would personally give it a try. If it works well, we might eventually get rid of the cont buffer completely and make the printk code a bit easier again. Best Regards, Petr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
