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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:38:08 -0400 From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@...r.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: "mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] shrink printk timestamp field On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:35:40PM -0400, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:17:59 -0400 Joe Korty <joe.korty@...r.com> wrote: > > > Shrink the printk timestamp field. > > > > Keep the printk timestamp from occupying more of the > > scarce, 80-column console line space than it really needs. > > > > This is a significant loss in utility. > > [ 16.817285] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. > [ 16.817288] md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices. > [ 16.817290] md: autorun ... > [ 16.817292] md: ... autorun DONE. > > This not-terribly-fast machine can emit printks into the log buffer > within two microseconds. That's a pretty useful ad-hoc timing > factility. > > This patch will reduce the precision by a factor of five hundred. I was looking at it from the point of view of finding out where the boot process was too slow. For that millisecs is enough. I am not sure where knowing printk output to the microsec would be useful for solving anything. Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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