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Re: [PATCH 2/2] console/serial: bump buffer from 16K to 32K


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  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
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On 23.06.2022 11:08, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> Testing on a Kaby Lake box with 8 CPUs leads to the serial buffer
> being filled halfway during dom0 boot, and thus a non-trivial chunk of
> Linux boot messages are dropped.
> 
> Increasing the buffer to 32K does fix the issue and Linux boot
> messages are no longer dropped.  There's no justification either on
> why 16K was chosen, and hence bumping to 32K in order to cope with
> current systems generating output faster does seem appropriate to have
> a better user experience with the provided defaults.

Just to record what was part of an earlier discussion: I'm not going
to nak such a change, but I think the justification is insufficient:
On this same basis someone else could come a few days later and bump
to 64k, then 128k, etc.

Jan



 


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