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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7 v6] trace, RAS: Add eMCA trace event interface
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 21:07:59 -0400
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On Fri, 30 May 2014 23:03:27 +0000
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:

 
> All of this stuff only applies to server systems - so quibbling over
> a handful of *bytes* in an error record on a system that has tens,
> hundreds or even thousands of *gigabytes* of memory seems
> a bit pointless.

But there's still only a limited number of bytes in the ring buffer no
matter what the system, thus we still need to quibble over it.

-- Steve