From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] forcedeth: allow to silence tx_timeout debug messages Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:16:03 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20110518.171603.2048423328863525352.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1305753000-14933-1-git-send-email-decot@google.com> <1305753000-14933-2-git-send-email-decot@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: joe@perches.com, szymon@janc.net.pl, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-net-upstream@google.com, snanda@google.com To: decot@google.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1305753000-14933-2-git-send-email-decot@google.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: David Decotigny Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 14:10:00 -0700 > From: Sameer Nanda > > This change allows to silence most debug messages in case of TX > timeout. These messages don't provide a signare/noise ratio high > enough for production systems and, with ~30kB logged each time, they > tend to add to a cascade effect if the system is already under stress > (memory pressure, disk, etc.). > > By default, the debug messages are not displayed but this can be > overriden by setting the debug_tx_timeout module parameter. > > > Signed-off-by: David Decotigny I would rather you make the messages less verbose, instead of having it say absolutely nothing when this happens as it is a serious problem. You can add a knob which when enabled gives the old verbosity back for diagnostic purposes.