Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >> Actually it's far worse than that if I got the math right, it will >> print in the order of 2 * NR_CPUS * NR_NODES * nr_zones, which for a >> machine with 1024 cpus and 1024 nodes will result in 2 million lines >> plus a bit of other noise. >> >> This is a problem on all architectures, not just ia64, so I have a >> patch to try and trim that down too, so it gets done right. But we may >> also want to consider dropping the call altogether for ia64 or maybe >> if the number of nodes is larger than a certain amount (but I don't >> like inconsistent behavior depending on the size of a system). > > Please lets just drop the call for ia64. For systems with a few cpus > (typical for Linux use) the diagnostics are very useful. I'm fine with this - anybody objecting to this call being dropped for ia64? We could do something where we only call it if the number of nodes is lower than a certain threshold, but IMHO it's better to be consistent? Comments, Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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