Re: swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20

Christophe Saout
2004-01-01T23:13:09Z

Am Do, den 01.01.2004 schrieb Anton Blanchard um 23:45:

> > This would mean that all users of printk_ratelimit share this. If
> > printk_ratelimit is bombed by one user other perhaps important messages
> > are also suppressed.
>
> printk_ratelimit is only to be used for things which we can afford to
> lose (eg our VM debugging messages). Don't use it on anything important :)

Other implementations would probably be overkill, so I'll agree with
you. :)

If printk_ratelimit is called too often there is probably something
wrong going anyway that is worth fixing.