Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: Cleanup boot CPUs table

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Sep 28 2013 - 04:25:52 EST



* Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>
> As the new x86 CPU bootup printout format code maintainer, I am taking
> immediate action to improve and clean (and thus indulge my OCD) the
> reporting of the cores when coming up online.
>
> Fix padding to a right-hand alignment, cleanup code and bind reporting
> width to the max number of supported CPUs on the system, like this:
>
> [ 0.074509] smpboot: Booting Node 0, Processors: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 OK
> [ 0.644008] smpboot: Booting Node 1, Processors: #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 OK
> [ 1.245006] smpboot: Booting Node 2, Processors: #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 OK
> [ 1.864005] smpboot: Booting Node 3, Processors: #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31 OK
> [ 2.489005] smpboot: Booting Node 4, Processors: #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39 OK
> [ 3.093005] smpboot: Booting Node 5, Processors: #40 #41 #42 #43 #44 #45 #46 #47 OK
> [ 3.698005] smpboot: Booting Node 6, Processors: #48 #49 #50 #51 #52 #53 #54 #55 OK
> [ 4.304005] smpboot: Booting Node 7, Processors: #56 #57 #58 #59 #60 #61 #62 #63 OK
> [ 4.961413] Brought up 64 CPUs

Awesome!

Could we, with another add-on patch, further compress the first half of
the output as well?

Advanced output like this would be really cool:

> [ 0.074509] x86: Booting node #0, CPUs: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
> [ 0.644008] x86: Booting node #1, CPUs: #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15
> [ 1.245006] x86: Booting node #2, CPUs: #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23
> [ 1.864005] x86: Booting node #3, CPUs: #24 #25 #26 #27 #28 #29 #30 #31
> [ 2.489005] x86: Booting node #4, CPUs: #32 #33 #34 #35 #36 #37 #38 #39
> [ 3.093005] x86: Booting node #5, CPUs: #40 #41 #42 #43 #44 #45 #46 #47
> [ 3.698005] x86: Booting node #6, CPUs: #48 #49 #50 #51 #52 #53 #54 #55
> [ 4.304005] x86: Booting node #7, CPUs: #56 #57 #58 #59 #60 #61 #62 #63
> [ 4.961413] x86: Booted up 8 nodes, 64 CPUs

and:

> [ 0.072367] x86: Booting node #0, CPUs: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
> [ 0.686329] x86: Booted up 1 node, 8 CPUs

Note the typographical details I added:

- I added an extra space after 'CPUs:' to make the table stand out
better from far away

- Removed the 'OK' - it really does not add any more information than
the newline already does

- Changed the 'Brought up' message to be more consistent with the prior
messages.

- Added nodes count to the 'Booted up' line. Since we count nodes and
CPUs, we might as well want to demonstrate our superior counting
skills and print out both.

- The 'node' counting uses the new num_digits() function - this was very
easy to implement in my mockup ;-)

- Note the singular spelling of 'node' in the 1-node case. Again this
was easy in the mockup!

Thanks,

Ingo
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