still issues with unreadable dmesg output on SMP systems

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

On 22 March 2012 05:13, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> s/fixed/mostly worked around/
>
> The problem is that the work around isn't perfect.  The root cause is still
> not fixed.  avg@ has some ideas on better ways to handle this, but it is a bit
> tricky to get this right since we also dont' want printfs to be delayed too
> much (and to fix this perfectly requires buffering printf output).

I'm rapidly liking the brokenness of the IO.

Why? Because it becomes _very freaking obvious_ when things are
running concurrently. I've found many ath/net80211 bugs because of
this.

Having it as an option would be nice. :-)


Adrian