linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] ratelimit: make output more useful

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Message-Id: <200910231651.39172.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:51:39 +0200
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ratelimit: make output more useful

Am Freitag 23 Oktober 2009 15:11:14 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> btw., an effect of this will be a small amount of extra bloat at every
> callsite of printk_ratelimit(). There's 200 of them kernel-wide, so i
> guess it's OK as all these codepaths are atypical slowpaths already.

Well, this patch is definitely no high priority.
Maybe you could keep it in tip for a while and see if somebody complains?

Christian
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