From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com
Cc: liuhangbin@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net 0/2] Add netdev_level_ratelimited to avoid netdev msg flush
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:27:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190812.112710.2043086880271864277.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bb8e9af-4d9b-7c16-f58d-e299b1f30007@linux.ibm.com>
From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 10:56:39 -0500
> Hi, thanks for reporting this. I was able to recreate this on my own
> system. The virtual ethernet's multicast filter list size is limited,
> and the driver will check that there is available space before adding
> entries. The problem is that the size is encoded as big endian, but
> the driver does not convert it for little endian systems after
> retrieving it from the device tree. As a result the driver is
> requesting more than the hypervisor can allow and getting this error
> in reply. I will submit a patch to correct this soon.
This is 1,000 times better than just trying to make the warning message
go away, thanks Thomas!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-12 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-01 9:03 [PATCH net] ibmveth: use net_err_ratelimited when set_multicast_list Hangbin Liu
2019-08-01 10:28 ` Joe Perches
2019-08-01 14:10 ` Hangbin Liu
2019-08-01 17:54 ` Joe Perches
2019-08-01 16:51 ` David Miller
2019-08-01 21:34 ` Joe Perches
2019-08-02 9:53 ` Hangbin Liu
2019-08-09 0:29 ` [PATCHv2 net 0/2] Add netdev_level_ratelimited to avoid netdev msg flush Hangbin Liu
2019-08-09 0:29 ` [PATCHv2 net 1/2] netdevice.h: add netdev_level_ratelimited for netdevice Hangbin Liu
2019-08-09 0:29 ` [PATCHv2 net 2/2] ibmveth: use netdev_err_ratelimited when set_multicast_list Hangbin Liu
2019-08-12 4:08 ` [PATCHv2 net 0/2] Add netdev_level_ratelimited to avoid netdev msg flush David Miller
2019-08-12 7:37 ` Hangbin Liu
2019-08-12 15:56 ` Thomas Falcon
2019-08-12 18:27 ` David Miller [this message]
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