Re: [PATCH 1/1] net/rds: suppress page allocation failure error in recv buffer refill

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Manjunath Patil <manjunath.b.patil@oracle.com>
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 2020 13:05:45 -0700

> RDS/IB tries to refill the recv buffer in softirq context using
> GFP_NOWAIT flag. However alloc failure is handled by queueing a work to
> refill the recv buffer with GFP_KERNEL flag. This means failure to
> allocate with GFP_NOWAIT isn't fatal. Do not print the PAF warnings if
> softirq context fails to refill the recv buffer, instead print rate
> limited warnings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manjunath Patil <manjunath.b.patil@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aruna Ramakrishna <aruna.ramakrishna@oracle.com>

Honestly I don't think the subsystem should print any warning at all.

Either it's a softirq failure, and that's ok because you will push
the allocation to GFP_KERNEL via a work job.  Or it's a GFP_KERNEL
failure in non-softirq context and the kernel will print a warning
and a stack backtrace from the memory allocator.

Therefore, please remove all of the warnings in the rds code.

Thanks.