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Re: [PATCH v3] console/serial: bump buffer from 16K to 128K


  • To: Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 15:06:45 +0200
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On 19.09.2023 14:51, 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 128K 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 128K in order to cope with
> current systems generating output faster does seem appropriate to have
> a better user experience with the provided defaults.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> --
> Changes since v2:
>  - Bump to 128K.

Wow, I was hesitant about 32k, and now we're going all the way up to 128?
Even the recent report indicated 24k would be fine there ...

Jan



 


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