linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7 v6] trace, RAS: Add eMCA trace event interface

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Message-ID: <20140530210759.267a854e@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Fri, 30 May 2014 21:07:59 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"Chen, Gong" <gong.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
	"m.chehab@...sung.com" <m.chehab@...sung.com>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7 v6] trace, RAS: Add eMCA trace event interface

On Fri, 30 May 2014 23:03:27 +0000
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:

 
> All of this stuff only applies to server systems - so quibbling over
> a handful of *bytes* in an error record on a system that has tens,
> hundreds or even thousands of *gigabytes* of memory seems
> a bit pointless.

But there's still only a limited number of bytes in the ring buffer no
matter what the system, thus we still need to quibble over it.

-- Steve
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