From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265226AbTLKTsg (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:48:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265221AbTLKTsf (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:48:35 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:45831 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265225AbTLKTsX (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:48:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:48:18 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jes Sorensen Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Mosberger , jbarnes@sgi.com, Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [patch] quite down SMP boot messages Message-ID: <20031211194818.A25999@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jes Sorensen , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Mosberger , jbarnes@sgi.com, Rusty Russell References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jes@wildopensource.com on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:30:52AM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:30:52AM -0500, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose this patch for 2.6.0 or 2.6.1 to quite down some > of the excessive boot messages printed for each CPU. The patch simply > introduces a boot time variable 'smpverbose' which users can set if > they experience problems and want to see the full set of messages. > > Once you hit > 2 CPUs the amount of noise printed per CPU starts > becoming a pain, at 64 CPUs it's turning into a royal pain .... > > Oh and I also killed a NULL initializer in kernel/cpu.c - bad Rusty ;-) Just kill the silly option, these messages are completly useless. And IIRC we didn't have them in 2.4 either..