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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quiet down swiotlb warnings
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:38:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <466075D1.8080807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070601193703.GI7217@one.firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:

> An pci_map_sg failing typically leads to an IO error and we've
> always printk'ed those. Otherwise people will wonder why they
> get EIO.

In some situations.  In this case the qla2xxx driver uses
the pci_map_sg() failure as a throttling mechanism and
printing out all the warnings will actually slow down the
system.

Andi, what do you propose as a solution?

-- 
Politics is the struggle between those who want to make their country
the best in the world, and those who believe it already is.  Each group
calls the other unpatriotic.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-01 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-01 17:30 [PATCH] quiet down swiotlb warnings Rik van Riel
2007-06-01 19:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 18:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-01 18:18     ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-01 19:37     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 19:38       ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-06-01 19:47         ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:00           ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-06-01 20:14             ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:20               ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-01 20:26                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-02 15:21                   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-02 16:47                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 19:57       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-01 18:16   ` Andrew Vasquez

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