Re: 4.14 backport request for dbdda842fe96f: "printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes"

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Mon Oct 22 2018 - 05:32:33 EST


On Sun 2018-10-21 11:09:22, Daniel Wang wrote:
> Just got back from vacation. Thanks for the continued discussion. Just so
> I understand the current state. Looks like we've got a pretty good explanation
> of what's going on (though not completely sure), and backporting Steven's
> patches is still the way to go? I see that Sergey had sent an RFC series
> for similar things. Are those trying to solve the deadlock problem in a
> different way?On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 1:55 AM Sergey Senozhatsky

I suggest to go with backporting Steven's patchset. We do not have
anything better at the moment.

Best Regards,
Petr