Re: [patch] x86: reduce srat verbosity in the kernel log

[Mike Travis]

David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Mike Travis wrote:
>
> > I don't understand the importance of this when the memory is given back
> > after the system starts up anyway...?
>
> Printing a list of apic ids longer than 128 characters would pollute the 
> kernel log and this upper bound will probably never be reached based on 
> the way apic ids are created for physical and logical processors: they are 
> normally reduced to ranges instead of comma seperated entities.

Ahh, ok, thanks.

Does that mean this 10,649 character line full of periods is illegal?

[  102.551570] Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization:
............... [long time later] .........
<4>Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 4396383657849 ns)

I'm having trouble finding it.  Does it look familiar to anyone?

Thanks,
Mike

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