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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:43:14 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Limit the number of processor bootup messages
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Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> On 11/17/2009 12:10 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>> The following lines have been removed:
>>>>
>>>>        CPU: Physical Processor ID:
>>>>        CPU: Processor Core ID:
>>>>        CPU %d/0x%x -> Node %d
>>> please don't.
>>>
>> Why not?
>>
>> Or, more formally: please state the rationale for keeping them.
>>
> at least one distribution: SLES 11 mess it up when BSP is from socket
> 1 instead of socket0
> 
> and above message does show kernel think BSP still from socket0, and
> other cores in that package are from socket1.

[    1.601924] Booting Node   0, Processors  #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 Ok.

How does one imply Socket 1 from Node 0?

I added the socket and core id for BSP.  I think cluttering up output
with useless additional information that is easily available is not
worthwhile.
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