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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ratelimit: make output more useful
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:51:39 +0200
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Am Freitag 23 Oktober 2009 15:11:14 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> btw., an effect of this will be a small amount of extra bloat at every
> callsite of printk_ratelimit(). There's 200 of them kernel-wide, so i
> guess it's OK as all these codepaths are atypical slowpaths already.

Well, this patch is definitely no high priority.
Maybe you could keep it in tip for a while and see if somebody complains?

Christian