linux-kernel - Re: [patch] x86: reduce srat verbosity in the kernel log

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Message-ID: <4AE8B933.5020103@sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:35:47 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86: reduce srat verbosity in the kernel log



David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Mike Travis wrote:
> 
>> I don't understand the importance of this when the memory is given back
>> after the system starts up anyway...?
>>
> 
> Printing a list of apic ids longer than 128 characters would pollute the 
> kernel log and this upper bound will probably never be reached based on 
> the way apic ids are created for physical and logical processors: they are 
> normally reduced to ranges instead of comma seperated entities.

Ahh, ok, thanks.

Does that mean this 10,649 character line full of periods is illegal?

[  102.551570] Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization:
............... [long time later] .........
<4>Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 4396383657849 ns)

I'm having trouble finding it.  Does it look familiar to anyone?

Thanks,
Mike

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