Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

From: Martin Mares (mj@suse.cz)
Date: Sat Jul 08 2000 - 06:11:37 EDT

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Hello!

> I admit that I'm very much a newbie here, but it seems that the effort to
> make a faster printk() would be better off in other areas, since, in the
> best of all worlds, it wouldn't ever be used during normal operation
> anyway?

The problem is not to make a faster printk(), but to make all the other
output faster (and preemptive) and still having _safe_ printk -- if we use
printk for reporting of errors, it should work reliably.

Have a nice fortnight

-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> <mj@suse.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ "...take my advice, I don't use it anyway."

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