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

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Oct 28 2009 - 16:52:26 EST


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.
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