Re: [patch] x86: reduce srat verbosity in the kernel log

[Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>]

David Rientjes wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Mike Travis wrote:
> 
>>> Printing a list of apic ids longer than 128 characters would pollute the
>>> kernel log and this upper bound will probably never be reached based on the
>>> way apic ids are created for physical and logical processors: they are
>>> normally reduced to ranges instead of comma seperated entities.
>> Ahh, ok, thanks.
>>
>> Does that mean this 10,649 character line full of periods is illegal?
>>
> 
> I'm not saying it would be illegal, merely that it would be harm 
> readability.  Based on how apic id's are formed from processor ids, 
> though, I think we're really talking about an upper limit (128) that will 
> never be reached.

We actually have many, many more than that by adding on some extra bits
to the CPU's apicid.  These select which blade in the system to target.

> 
>> [  102.551570] Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization:
>> ............... [long time later] .........
>> <4>Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 4396383657849 ns)
>>
>> I'm having trouble finding it.  Does it look familiar to anyone?
>>
> 
> It's debugging output from acpi_ns_initialize_objects() and each period is 
> from acpi_ns_init_one_device().  You can suppress it by disabing 
> CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG.

Ahh, didn't know that was set in the (our) default config.  Is it normally
set by distros?