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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >On 11/12/2009 02:22 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> >>But I don't disagree with Andi either, that it's not particularly useful,
> >>and we can get all this from userspace in /proc/cpuinfo, or x86info.
> >>
> >
> > I personally don't think it's useful at all.  It gives information 
> > about the processor which can be obtained from other sources.  What 
> > we want is enough information that the CPU can be unambiguously 
> > identified, so that when someone posts dmesg we can tell what 
> > machine they came from.
> 
> Can we say the same thing about the sched debug messages?  It's even 
> more painful because the number of lines output is exponential to the 
> number of cpus.

Yeah - but instead of getting rid of them please tie them to a (default 
off) debug switch. There's been the occasional crash where they were 
useful.

	Ingo
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