From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754777AbaCMX0u (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:26:50 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:35716 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753601AbaCMX0t (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:26:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:26:36 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jan Kara , LKML , pmladek@suse.cz, Steven Rostedt , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] printk: Hand over printing to console if printing too long Message-ID: <20140313232636.02766d06@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140313160625.1c62ca6bba080286194aa868@linux-foundation.org> References: <1394726318-2757-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <1394726318-2757-6-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> <20140313160625.1c62ca6bba080286194aa868@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Creating yet more kernel threads to solve this problem is a bit sad. > Is there no way in which we can borrow one of the existing threads? schedule_work() Surely that's all we need, if we get bunged up for a bit then it ends up on a work queue item and everyone with a billion disks and a 9600 baud serial port is still happy. Nobody else will ever see it. Alan