Re: [PATCH] Disable scheduler debugging

[David Lang]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Unfortunately there are just, flat-out, way too many kernel messages at 
> boot-up.  Making them KERN_DEBUG doesn't solve the fact that SMP boxes often 
> overflow the printk buffer before you boot up to a useful userland that can 
> record the dmesg.
>
> The IO-APIC code is a _major_ offender in this area, but the CPU code is 
> right up there as well.
neither of these are nearly as bad as the crypto code, it takes a HUGE 
kernel log to get any info from before that if you enable all the 
encryption modes.

David Lang


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