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

[Yinghai Lu]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> When there are a large number of processors in a system, there
> is an excessive amount of messages sent to the system console.
> It's estimated that with 4096 processors in a system, and the
> console baudrate set to 56K, the startup messages will take
> about 84 minutes to clear the serial port.
>
> This set of patches limits the number of repetitious messages
> which contain no additional information.  Much of this information
> is obtainable from the /proc and /sysfs.   Some of the messages
> are also sent to the kernel log buffer as KERN_DEBUG messages so
> dmesg can be used to examine more closely any details specific to
> a problem.
>
> The list of message transformations....
>
> For system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING:
>
> Booting Node   0, Processors  #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 Ok.
> Booting Node   1, Processors  #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 Ok.
> ..
> Booting Node   3, Processors  #56 #57 #58 #59 #60 #61 #62 #63 Ok.
> Brought up 64 CPUs
>
> The following lines have been removed:
>
>        CPU: Physical Processor ID:
>        CPU: Processor Core ID:
>        CPU %d/0x%x -> Node %d

please don't.

YH
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