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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] SYSCTL: Make bin_table not const
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:06:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091220210650.GA5143@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1d429o1g5.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>

> Is printk_ratelimit truly ineffective at what it does?
> 
> Arguably we don't need to warn anywhere near that often, so even
> if printk_ratelimit works we are good.
> 
> If printk_ratelimit let's too much through we really should also write
> a patch to let fewer messages through that way.

Any time based rate is too much for compatibility. Assume even if you only 
printed one per hour and the user keeps running a program that 
uses sysctl it would still be >5000 messages each month.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-20 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-19 14:58 [PATCH] [0/2] SYSCTL: Warn once for all legacy syctls Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 14:58 ` [PATCH] [1/2] SYSCTL: Make bin_table not const Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 17:40   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-19 21:18     ` Andi Kleen
2009-12-20 20:06       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-12-20 21:06         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-12-21  1:23     ` [PATCH] SYSCTL: Print binary sysctl warnings (nearly) only once Andi Kleen
2009-12-19 14:58 ` [PATCH] [2/2] SYSCTL: Warn once for every binary sysctl Andi Kleen

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