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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>,
	tony.luck@intel.com, andi@firstfloor.org, ananth@in.ibm.com,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/mce: Move MCE sysfs attributes out of the per-cpu location
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:40:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120829104018.GD26977@aftab.osrc.amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <503DEE3C.6020406@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:56:04PM +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Hmmm.. Can't we just deprecate these? ;) Perhaps we can consider
> adding newer tunables in the right place.

In case you haven't noticed yet: I'm all on your side.

But let me ask you this: these attributes grow to a large number with
a large number of cores but why is this a problem? We have a bunch of
redundant attributes in sysfs, so what?

See what I mean?

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Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-29 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-29  7:41 [PATCH RFC] x86/mce: Move MCE sysfs attributes out of the per-cpu location Naveen N. Rao
2012-08-29 10:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-29 10:26   ` Naveen N. Rao
2012-08-29 10:40     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-08-29 13:10       ` Naveen N. Rao
2012-08-29 14:43   ` Luck, Tony
2012-08-30  9:47     ` Naveen N. Rao

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