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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:10:17 -0800
From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
CC: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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       Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: Limit the number of processor bootup messages
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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.
> 
> 	-hpa

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.

Thanks,
Mike
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