linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: print debug values in Kib not MB

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Message-ID: <53D92996.1050906@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:21:26 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
CC:	Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lszubowi@...hat.com, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: print debug values in Kib not MB

On 07/30/2014 10:10 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>> My issue is simply that I'd like to know *exactly* how big each range is and not
>> have it rounded off.  Others think that it is easier to read Mib & Gib ...
> 
> It is easier to read in MiB or GiB IMHO, but since it is debug info,
> exact is good.  It would be even better [more readable] to use commas
> (or periods/dots) to separate it into groups of 3 digits.
> 

Arguably the exactness is available in the range...

	-hpa

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