Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37:08 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86: reduce srat verbosity in the kernel log |
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Hi!
> There's two problems outlined in this discussion: > > A) too verbose bootup that is annoying with 64 CPUs and a show-stopper > with 4096 CPUs. > > B) the ad-hoc nature of our topology enumeration. Some of it is in > /sys, some of it is in printk logs. None really works well and > there's no structure in it. > > The simplest solution for (A) is what i suggested a few mails ago: dont > print the information by default, but allow (for trouble-shooting) > purposes for it to be printed when a boot option is passed.
Well, yes, it is *simplest*, but is it best? Example printing 'cpus 0-31 stepping 3, cpus 32-63 stepping 4' seem rather convincing --such info should be there by default and not after speciial option... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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