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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Nov 13 2009 - 03:12:25 EST


On 11/13/2009 12:03 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> In which case..
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Remove the CPU cache size printk's.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Precisely - these are the kind of simple patches i'd like to see.
>

Indeed.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>

I'll apply it tomorrow if you don't beat me to it.

-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.

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