Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 2/2] mwifiex: print URB submit failure error after threshold attemtps

[Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>]

Hi Ganapathi,

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 02:14:24PM +0000, Ganapathi Bhat wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-08-31 at 01:21 +0530, Ganapathi Bhat wrote:
> > > Current driver prints dev_alloc_skb failures everytime while
> > > submitting RX URBs. This failure might be frequent in some low
> > > resource platforms. So, wait for a threshold failure count before
> > > start priting the error. This change is a follow up for the 'commit
> > > 7b368e3d15c3
> > > ("mwifiex: resubmit failed to submit RX URBs in main thread")'
> > 
> > []
> > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c
> > > b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/usb.c
> > []
> > > @@ -300,9 +300,16 @@ static int mwifiex_usb_submit_rx_urb(struct
> > urb_context *ctx, int size)
> > >  	if (card->rx_cmd_ep != ctx->ep) {
> > >  		ctx->skb = dev_alloc_skb(size);
> > >  		if (!ctx->skb) {
> > > -			mwifiex_dbg(adapter, ERROR,
> > > -				    "%s: dev_alloc_skb failed\n", __func__);
> > > +			if (++card->rx_urb_failure_count >
> > > +			    MWIFIEX_RX_URB_FAILURE_THRESHOLD) {
> > > +				mwifiex_dbg(adapter, ERROR,
> > > +					    "%s: dev_alloc_skb failed, failure
> > count = %u\n",
> > > +					    __func__,
> > > +					    card->rx_urb_failure_count);
> > > +			}
> > >  			return -ENOMEM;
> > 
> > Why not use a ratelimit?
> Since this is for receive, the packets are from AP side and we cannot
> lower the rate from AP. On some low performance systems this change
> will be helpful.

I think Joe was referring to things like printk_ratelimited() or
dev_err_ratelimited(). Those automatically ratelimit prints for you,
using a static counter. You'd just need to make a small warpper for
mwifiex_dbg() using __ratelimit().

Those sort of rate limits are significantly different than yours though.
You were looking to avoid printing errors when there are only a few
failures in a row, whereas the existing rate-limiting infrastructure
looks to avoid printing errors if too many happen in a row. Those are
different goals.

Brian