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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/skbuff: silence warnings under memory pressure
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:11:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6109dab4-4061-8fee-96ac-320adf94e130@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1567177025-11016-1-git-send-email-cai@lca.pw>



On 8/30/19 4:57 PM, Qian Cai wrote:
> When running heavy memory pressure workloads, the system is throwing
> endless warnings below due to the allocation could fail from
> __build_skb(), and the volume of this call could be huge which may
> generate a lot of serial console output and cosumes all CPUs as
> warn_alloc() could be expensive by calling dump_stack() and then
> show_mem().
> 
> Fix it by silencing the warning in this call site. Also, it seems
> unnecessary to even print a warning at all if the allocation failed in
> __build_skb(), as it may just retransmit the packet and retry.
> 

Same patches are showing up there and there from time to time.

Why is this particular spot interesting, against all others not adding __GFP_NOWARN ?

Are we going to have hundred of patches adding __GFP_NOWARN at various points,
or should we get something generic to not flood the syslog in case of memory pressure ?


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-30 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-30 14:57 [PATCH] net/skbuff: silence warnings under memory pressure Qian Cai
2019-08-30 15:11 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2019-08-30 15:25   ` Qian Cai
2019-08-30 16:15     ` Eric Dumazet
2019-08-30 18:06       ` Qian Cai
2019-09-03 13:22       ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-03 15:42         ` Qian Cai
2019-09-03 18:53           ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-03 21:42             ` Qian Cai
2019-09-04  6:15               ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04  6:41                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04  6:54                   ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04  7:19                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04  7:43                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04 12:14                         ` Qian Cai
2019-09-04 14:48                           ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04 15:07                             ` Qian Cai
2019-09-04 20:42                             ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05  8:32                               ` Eric Dumazet
2019-09-05 14:09                                 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05 15:06                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-09-05 15:14                                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-09-05 11:32                               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-05 16:03                                 ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05 17:14                                   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-06  2:50                                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06  4:32                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 21:17                                     ` Qian Cai
2019-09-05 17:23                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-09-06  3:39                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 15:32                                     ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-09  1:10                                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-06 14:55                                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-06 19:51                                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-11-14 17:12                                 ` Qian Cai
2019-11-18 15:27                                   ` Petr Mladek
2019-11-19  0:41                                     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-11-19  9:41                                       ` Petr Mladek
2019-11-19 15:58                                         ` Qian Cai
2019-11-20  1:30                                         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-11-20 16:13                                           ` Petr Mladek
2019-11-21  1:05                                             ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-11-21  9:15                                               ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-04  7:00                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2019-09-04  8:25                     ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04 11:59                       ` Qian Cai
2019-09-04 12:07                         ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-04 12:28                           ` Qian Cai
2019-09-07 11:00                       ` Tetsuo Handa
2019-09-04  6:15               ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-02 14:24     ` Vlastimil Babka

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