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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: remove "too much work for irq" printk
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:21:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080112202147.GA2730@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080112201543.GB12775@kvack.org>

On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:15:43PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> When using kvm with a serial console, the serial driver will print out 
> "too much work for irq4" on any heavy activity (ie vi on a file repainting 
> the terminal).  This message is entirely spurious, as output continues to 
> work fine.  Remove the message as it corrupts screen output and is far too 
> easy to trigger.

Yeah, this message has been annoying me too.  Thanks for sending the
patch.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-12 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-12 20:15 [PATCH] serial: remove "too much work for irq" printk Benjamin LaHaise
2008-01-12 20:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-01-12 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-12 21:39   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-12 21:42     ` Alan Cox
2008-01-12 21:58       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-13 22:03   ` Pavel Machek

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