This is the last version of Steven's console owner/waiter logic. Plus my proposal to hide it into 3 helper functions. It is supposed to keep the code maintenable.
The handshake really works. It happens about 10-times even during boot of a simple system in qemu with a fast console here. It is definitely able to avoid some softlockups. Let's see if it is enough in practice. >From my point of view, it is ready to go into linux-next so that it can get some more test coverage. Steven's patch is the v4, see https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Petr Mladek (1): printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers Steven Rostedt (1): printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes kernel/printk/printk.c | 156 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 155 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.13.6
