RE: [PATCH v2 6/6] ACPI: RISCV: Enable ACPI based NUMA

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Mon Apr 01 2024 - 12:58:04 EST


>> If the firmware didn't provide the SRAT/SLIT on ACPI based systems, then
>> there will be a message "Failed to initialise from firmware" from
>> arch_acpi_numa_init(). This is not specific to RISC-V. But I am
>> wondering why should it be pr_info instead of pr_debug.
>>
>
> My understanding is maybe it just wants to expose explicit logs to
> avoid any potential bugs from FW or Kernel.

There are lots of ACPI enabled systems that aren't NUMA (single
socket servers, desktops, laptops). Making this "pr_info()" would just
add noise to the boot on all of those.

-Tony