On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Arun KS <getarunks@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Chetan,

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Chetan Nanda <chetannanda@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

We are working on ARM based SOC. Currently we are implementing a efficient tracing mechanism to logs messages from a dedicated MCU.

For this, we share a circular buffer between ARM and MCU and messages stored in the buffer will be put into kernel ring-buffer and then output via dmesg call. Strangely wringing a single log message in the kernel ring-buffer cost around 6-8ms.

Consider this situvation, if your do a printk message of 100 characters at a baud rate of 115200 bps on your UART console. Now 1 bit it will take 8.68 us(ie.. 1/115200).

So 100 character ie.. 800 bits(exculuding parity, stop bits and all other over heads) will take 8.68 us * 800 = 6.94 ms.

How are you writing to the kernel log buffer? Are you using UART as console? If yes what is your baud rate?

If possible give more details about your design.

I think Arun's assumptions are valid here. I am not aware of how the kernel ring buffer is used, but I would think it is better to have the logs printed out from a user space application. That way you are not blocking the kernel to spend time printing each message that gets put into the buffer. Does that make sense?

Thanks,

Arun

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Please help to confirm this, or we are doing something wrong.

Thanks, Chetan Nanda

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