Occasional delayed output of events

[Paul Moore]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:43 PM Burn Alting <burn.alting at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-01-15 at 19:35 -0500, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>> Or we go back to userspace code looking for the EOE record?  This
>> doesn't help if they arrive out of order.  Do we number the records in
>> the kernel?  N of M...
>
> I like the N of M concept but there would be a LOT of change - especially for all the non-kernel event sources. The EOE would be the most seamless, but at a cost.
> My preference is to allow the 2 second 'timer' to be configurable.

Agree with Burn, numbering the records coming up from the kernel is
going to be a real nightmare, and not something to consider lightly.
Especially when it sounds like we don't yet have a root cause for the
issue.

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paul moore
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