Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Limit the number of processor bootup messages

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
> @@ -671,6 +671,27 @@
>  	complete(&c_idle->done);
>  }
>  
> +/* reduce the number of lines printed when booting a large cpu count system */
> +static void __cpuinit announce_cpu(int cpu, int apicid)
> +{
> +	if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +		static int current_node = -1;
> +		int node = cpu_to_node(cpu);
> +
> +		if (node != current_node) {
> +			if (current_node > (-1))
> +				pr_cont(" Ok.\n");
> +			current_node = node;
> +			pr_info("Booting Node %3d, Processors ", node);
> +		}
> +		pr_cont(" #%d%s", cpu, cpu == (nr_cpu_ids - 1) ? " Ok.\n" : "");
> +		return;
> +#endif
> +	}

That's pretty ugly. (the #ifdef is at the wrong nesting level to begin 
with)

Also, cannot we print out the same thing with no #ifdef variances? Users 
of UP systems wont be confused by a 'Node 0, CPU 0' message and in 5 
years most x86 people will be running NUMA systems.

	Ingo
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