Re: [PATCH][RFC] vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its3 users

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:19:37 +0100 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > An new optimization is making its way to ftrace. Its purpose 
> > is to make ftrace_printk() consuming less memory and be 
> > faster.
> > 
> > Written by Lai Jiangshan, the approach is to delay the 
> > formatting job from tracing time to output time. Currently, 
> > a call to ftrace_printk will format the whole string and 
> > insert it into the ring buffer.
> 
> It does that?  eek.

hm, did you expect something else from a printf based interface?

	Ingo
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