From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264165AbUFFVzY (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:55:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264175AbUFFVzY (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:55:24 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:65484 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264165AbUFFVzW (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:55:22 -0400 Message-ID: <40C392BB.3020406@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:55:07 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zwane Mwaikambo CC: Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable scheduler debugging References: <20040606033238.4e7d72fc.ak@suse.de> <20040606055336.GA15350@elte.hu> <40C3452B.5010500@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>Unfortunately there are just, flat-out, way too many kernel messages at >>boot-up. Making them KERN_DEBUG doesn't solve the fact that SMP boxes >>often overflow the printk buffer before you boot up to a useful userland >>that can record the dmesg. >> >>The IO-APIC code is a _major_ offender in this area, but the CPU code is >>right up there as well. > > > How about the configurable log buffer size patch? I think Andrew still has > that amongst his wares. It's in mainline. That's no excuse for the voluminous logs, though... I'm a "1-2 lines per module" type of person :) Jeff