Re: [ RFC, PATCH - 1/2 ] x86-microcode: refactor microcode outputmessages

[Mike Travis]

Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 11:22:59PM +0100, dimm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > this is in response to Mike's patch "Limit the number of microcode
> > messages".
> >
> > What's about the following (yet preliminary and not thoroughly tested)
> > approach?
>
> Hmm, patch-1 doesn't apply:
>
>  patching file arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h
>  patching file arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c
>  Hunk #1 succeeded at 152 (offset -4 lines).
>  Hunk #2 succeeded at 240 (offset -7 lines).
>  patch: **** malformed patch at line 99: size_t size)
>
>
> > patch-1:
> >
> > simplify 'struct ucode_cpu_info' and related operational logic.
> >
> >
> > patch-2: 
> >
> > reduce a number of similar 'microcode version' messages by printing a
> > single message for all cpus with equal microcode version, like:
>
> Would be useful on systems with many cores.
>
> On AMD multi-socket systems often you have the same CPU revisions and
> thus you'd like to have similar ucode on all cores. Hence there is a
> high chance that your code would reduce the amount of microcode log
> messages during boot.
>
> I'd like to test it but would need patches that do apply ...
>
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas

I will test it here as well.

Thanks,
Mike
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