Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:53:00 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Limit the number of processor bootup messages |
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* Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >On 11/12/2009 02:22 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > >>But I don't disagree with Andi either, that it's not particularly useful, > >>and we can get all this from userspace in /proc/cpuinfo, or x86info. > >> > > > > I personally don't think it's useful at all. It gives information > > about the processor which can be obtained from other sources. What > > we want is enough information that the CPU can be unambiguously > > identified, so that when someone posts dmesg we can tell what > > machine they came from. > > Can we say the same thing about the sched debug messages? It's even > more painful because the number of lines output is exponential to the > number of cpus.
Yeah - but instead of getting rid of them please tie them to a (default off) debug switch. There's been the occasional crash where they were useful.
Ingo
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