Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:58:37 -0800 | From | Mike Travis <> | Subject | Re: [patch] x86: reduce srat verbosity in the kernel log |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > 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
I think that Ingo had a point. If it's printing a summary after the all the cpu's boot, then it should also be available online, which in this case it's in /proc/cpuinfo.
Ingo - was there anything left open on my last submission that I have to deal with, to gain acceptance?
Thanks, Mike
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