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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:02:52 +1100
From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
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To: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.6.1-mm3 quiet down SMP boot messages
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Jes Sorensen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'd like to propose the following for 2.6.1-mm/2.6.2. On systems with a
>large number of CPUs the number of printk's flowing by for each CPU
>booting starts becoming a real console hog.
>
>The following patch eliminates a couple of them (already sent a patch to
>David for the ia64 specific ones) as well as changes the 
>"Building zonelist : X" in "Built Y zonelists". IMHO it doesn't make any
>sense to print for each zonelist since it's run in a for loop running
>from 0 to Y-1 anyway.
>
>The patch nukes a few new printk's that were introduced with the
>scheduler changes to the NUMA code in -mm3, if these are still needed
>then I won't fight for that part of the patch.
>

Thanks, I forgot to remove those printks because I don't have a NUMA
handy I guess. They're just to make sure the sched domains where being
initialized properly. They can go.

I like the rest of the patch too.


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