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From: "Jack O'Quin" <joq@io.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas@gmx.net>,
	Andrew Burgess <aab@cichlid.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jackit-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.10-rc2-mm3-V0.7.31-19
Date: 02 Dec 2004 14:48:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zn0wctpk.fsf@sulphur.joq.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102018036.31206.8.camel@krustophenia.net>

Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> writes:

> On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 11:07 -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> > Is printk() guaranteed not to wait inside the kernel?  I am not
> > familiar with its internal implementation.
> 
> Yes.  It just writes to a ring buffer and klogd dumps this to syslog.
> So if you really start to spew printk's they don't all make it to the
> log but you never get blocked.
> 
> The implementation probably looks a lot like a correct solution to fix
> the printf-from-RT-context issue in JACK would.

Right.  That's exactly what I have in mind, whenever I find time to
work on it.  :-)

There's some similar code I wrote for JAMin, which we could adapt.
-- 
  joq

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02 15:46 Andrew Burgess
2004-12-02 16:03 ` [Jackit-devel] " Florian Schmidt
2004-12-02 16:26   ` Jack O'Quin
2004-12-02 16:57     ` Florian Schmidt
2004-12-02 17:07       ` Jack O'Quin
2004-12-02 20:07         ` Lee Revell
2004-12-02 20:48           ` Jack O'Quin [this message]
2004-12-02 17:09       ` Florian Schmidt
2004-12-02 17:32         ` Jack O'Quin
2004-12-02 20:03           ` Florian Schmidt
2004-12-02 21:10             ` Florian Schmidt
2004-12-02 22:34 ` Bill Huey

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