Re: [RFC PATCH v1 08/25] printk: add ring buffer and kthread

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 01:51:14 EST


On (03/07/19 15:41), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> This sounds concerning. IMHO, netconsole is too important to rely
> on preemptible printk and scheduler. Especially those netcons which
> run in "report only when oops_in_progress" mode. Sometimes netconsole
> is the fastest console available, but preemptible printk may turn it
> into the slowest one.

+ oops may end by the time kthread becomes active.

-ss