linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE: Add command line option to extend MCE Records pool

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 21:09:20 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "Naik, Avadhut" <avadnaik@....com>
Cc: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yazen.ghannam@....com,
	Avadhut Naik <avadhut.naik@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/MCE: Add command line option to extend MCE
 Records pool

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 02:02:49PM -0600, Naik, Avadhut wrote:
> Is it safe to assume that users will always want to increase the size
> of the pool and not decrease it?

Why don't you make the gen pool size a function of the number of CPUs on
the system and have it all work automagically?

Burdening the user with yet another cmdline switch is a bad idea. We
have way too many as it is.

This stuff should work out-of-the-box, without user intervention if
possible. And it is possible in this case.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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