From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:08:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] option to quite unaligned trap warnings Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Tony" = Luck, Tony writes: >> I kinda added that deliberately to make it a strong point to the >> users that they really should consider fixing their apps. If we do >> a simple message like that they may not realize the cost of it. >> >> I can live with the simple message, but I think it would be good to >> swing the cluebat a bit ;-) Tony> The clueless users won't ever see your message as the default is Tony> for them to still keep seeing messages every (rate limited) time Tony> their broken applications make a misaligned access. They need Tony> to have somehow found a clue someplace to work out how to turn Tony> these messages off ... hopefully there is some correlation Tony> between them finding that clue and knowing that an unaligned Tony> access is bad for performance. I guess the risk is that there are clueful users and clueless admins, the latter being the ones disabling this feature. Anyway if you prefer a simpler text then I am ok with it, getting the functionality in solves the problem I was facing. Thanks, Jes