Re: linux.git: printk() problem

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sun Oct 23 2016 - 17:13:41 EST


On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Perhaps it could be a pool of active thread
> continuation buffers.

Yes, we could probably do with just a couple of entries. Even just two
would probably catch almost all cases.

That said, having dealt with that code, I'd hate to make it more
complex again for something where the preferred solution is "don't do
it".

Linus