Re: [PATCH 0/2] printk: replace ringbuffer

[lijiang]

> On 2020-02-05, lijiang <lijiang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Do you have any suggestions about the size of CONFIG_LOG_* and
>> CONFIG_PRINTK_* options by default?
> 
> The new printk implementation consumes more than double the memory that
> the current printk implementation requires. This is because dictionaries
> and meta-data are now stored separately.
> 
> If the old defaults (LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17 LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT=12) were
> chosen because they are maximally acceptable defaults, then the defaults
> should be reduced by 1 so that the final size is "similar" to the
> current implementation.
> 
> If instead the defaults are left as-is, a machine with less than 64 CPUs
> will reserve 336KiB for printk information (128KiB text, 128KiB
> dictionary, 80KiB meta-data).
> 
> It might also be desirable to reduce the dictionary size (maybe 1/4 the
> size of text?). However, since the new printk implementation allows for
> non-intrusive dictionaries, we might see their usage increase and start
> to be as large as the messages themselves.
> 
> John Ogness
> 

Thanks for the explanation in detail.

Lianbo