From: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
tom.l.nguyen@intel.com, yanmin.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [rfc] suppress excessive AER output
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 14:45:01 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC=cRTM_CZfstvbpdCRrLV-VH0VC=u6r10L+Ox2G4LWomXVauA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110803223407.GA20646@redhat.com>
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> I have a machine that has developed some kind of problem with
> its onboard ethernet. It still boots, but spewed almost 1.5G of text
> (2381585 instances of the warning below) before we realised what
> was going on, and blacklisted the igb driver.
>
> Is it worth logging every single error when we're flooding like this ?
> It seems unlikely that we'll find useful information in amongst that much data
> that wasn't already in the first 100 instances.
>
> I picked 100 in the (untested) example patch below arbitarily, but the exact
> value could be smaller, or slightly bigger..
>
> could we do something like this maybe ?
Why not use __ratelimit to implement this feature?
Best Regards,
Huang Ying
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-04 6:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-03 22:34 [rfc] suppress excessive AER output Dave Jones
2011-08-04 5:54 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2011-08-05 1:50 ` Dave Jones
2011-08-05 1:59 ` Zhang, Yanmin
2011-08-05 2:09 ` Dave Jones
2011-08-04 6:45 ` huang ying [this message]
2011-08-05 1:50 ` Dave Jones
2011-08-05 2:24 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2011-08-05 2:33 ` Dave Jones
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