Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFC] RT: Optionally allow IRQF_NODELAY on serialconsole

[Steven Rostedt]

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On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>   What you describe is exactly what I did.  The IRQF_NODELAY handler
> just minimally checks to see if the character is a sysrq related one (or
> KDB, if you have the KDB patches applied).  If it is not, it puts the
> character into a ring-buffer and wakes a (kthread-based) tasklet to do
> the normal serial/tty rx path by processing the ring.

Ah, that was in the second patch (I didn't look at that. My fault). I
didn't see this description in the comments. But you are right, it is very
close to what I did too. But before we add this to -rt, it will need to
probably need to be tested quite a bit more. Especially since this is more
to help us developers than to help end users.

I would like to see something like this eventually make it into RT.  Just
because there has been too many times that this would be useful. For now I
just use the NMI watchdog and soft lockup detect. But those are very
limiting.

>
> Hope that helps to clarify.

Yes, thanks!

-- Steve

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