Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:27:27PM +0300, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >
> > Preferably that would be only the fastest options (extremly simple
> > per CPU buffer with inlined fast path that drop data on buffer overflow), 
> 
> Logging mechanism that loses data is worse than useless. It's only too
> often that one spends a lot of time trying to reproduce some condition
> with logging on, only to find out that nothing was logged.

When you have a timing bug and your logger starts to block randomly
you also won't debug anything. Fix is to make your buffers bigger.

-Andi
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