linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Release console_sem after logbuf

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Message-ID: <1307705311.3941.118.camel@twins>
Date:	Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:28:31 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, efault@....de,
	Arne Jansen <lists@...-jansens.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 16:57 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> All console-related activity curently happens under spin_lock_irqsave(&console_lock). 
> This causes interrutps to be blocked for 1-2 milliseconds with vgacon, and for
> hundreds of milliseconds with fbdevs.  This results in network overruns, audio
> dropouts, dropped characters on serial ports and other such nice things.

Hmm, with these proposed patches we're actually back to that. I wonder
if fbdev is still that crappy..
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