From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Can we replace the msleep(250) in dev.c netdev_wait_allrefs? Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:47:38 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20130129.154738.2296526527975433560.davem@davemloft.net> References: <51082FF3.4090805@candelatech.com> <20130129.153116.170658846017551064.davem@davemloft.net> <1359492330.30177.7.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:60130 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751856Ab3A2Urj (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:47:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1359492330.30177.7.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:45:30 -0800 > On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 15:31 -0500, David Miller wrote: >> If you only notice some time in the future that something has hung in >> this state, the original message could be lost. Therefore, I >> definitely prefer that this thing keeps barking into the logs >> periodically. > > Not sure we need the full stack, as it probably contains no useful > context / information at this point. That's true.