Re: [patch] 2.6.1-mm3 quiet down SMP boot messages

[Nick Piggin]

Jes Sorensen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose the following for 2.6.1-mm/2.6.2. On systems with a
> large number of CPUs the number of printk's flowing by for each CPU
> booting starts becoming a real console hog.
>
> The following patch eliminates a couple of them (already sent a patch to
> David for the ia64 specific ones) as well as changes the 
> "Building zonelist : X" in "Built Y zonelists". IMHO it doesn't make any
> sense to print for each zonelist since it's run in a for loop running
> from 0 to Y-1 anyway.
>
> The patch nukes a few new printk's that were introduced with the
> scheduler changes to the NUMA code in -mm3, if these are still needed
> then I won't fight for that part of the patch.

Thanks, I forgot to remove those printks because I don't have a NUMA
handy I guess. They're just to make sure the sched domains where being
initialized properly. They can go.

I like the rest of the patch too.


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