Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:52:14 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
       Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
       Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
       David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>,
       Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>, x86@kernel.org,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove CPU cache size output for non-Intel too
Message-ID: <20091113225214.GA21609@redhat.com>
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	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 02:38:26PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
 > As Dave Jones said about the output in intel_cacheinfo.c: "They aren't
 > useful, and pollute the dmesg output a lot (especially on machines with
 > many cores).  Also the same information can be trivially found out from
 > userspace."  Give the generic display_cacheinfo() function the same
 > treatment.
 > 
 > Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>


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