linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Limit the number of processor bootup messages

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Message-ID: <20091113080312.GA18054@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:03:12 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Limit the number of processor bootup messages


* Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:

> In which case..
> 
> 	Dave
> 
> --- 
> 
> Remove the CPU cache size printk's.
> 
> They aren't useful, and pollute the dmesg output a lot (especially on 
> machines with many cores). Also the same information can be trivially 
> found out from userspace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>

Precisely - these are the kind of simple patches i'd like to see.

	Ingo
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