In article <8998.1530490...@splode.eterna.com.au>, matthew green <m...@eterna.com.au> wrote: >Jason Thorpe writes: >> >> >> > On Jul 1, 2018, at 2:48 AM, Martin Husemann <mar...@netbsd.org> wrote: >> > >> > I'd rather not have this at all - instead just drop the useless timestamps >> > at boot time, they are useless here and make console output unreadable. >> > >> > They are fine after mountroot, but is there really any use for them before? >> >> +1 > >i think there is definitively a use for them as soon as clock are >running -- ie, when config_interrupts() occurs -- and having worked >with a kernel that prints TSC values before the clocks are running, >i also claim that this is useful too. it helps find slowness in >early boot. > >i wasn't against the original changed (now reverted).
It will also make dmesg -T look funny if some have timestamps and others do not. It is better to be consistent. christos
