From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: atomlin@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, pshelar@nicira.com, mst@redhat.com,
alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, riel@redhat.com, aquini@redhat.com,
sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v2] skbuff: Hide GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures for dropped packets
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:00:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A4D4AD.2010507@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130527224149.GA4384@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
On 05/27/2013 03:41 PM, Francois Romieu wrote:
> atomlin@redhat.com <atomlin@redhat.com> :
> [...]
>> Failed GFP_ATOMIC allocations by the network stack result in dropped
>> packets, which will be received on a subsequent retransmit, and an
>> unnecessary, noisy warning with a kernel backtrace.
>>
>> These warnings are harmless, but they still cause users to panic and
>> file bug reports over dropped packets. It would be better to hide the
>> failed allocation warnings and backtraces, and let retransmits handle
>> dropped packets quietly.
>
> Linux VM may be perfect but device drivers do stupid things.
>
> Please don't paper over it just because some shit ends in your backyard.
We should rate-limit these messages at least. When a system is low on memory
the logs can quickly fill up with useless OOM messages, further slowing
the system...
Ben
>
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-28 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-26 20:45 [Patch v2] skbuff: Hide GFP_ATOMIC page allocation failures for dropped packets atomlin
2013-05-27 18:18 ` Rafael Aquini
2013-05-27 22:41 ` Francois Romieu
2013-05-28 16:00 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2013-05-28 16:15 ` Rafael Aquini
2013-05-28 16:19 ` Ben Greear
2013-05-28 16:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28 17:43 ` Rafael Aquini
2013-05-28 17:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28 18:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28 18:19 ` Joe Perches
2013-05-28 21:32 ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-28 17:29 ` Joe Perches
2013-05-28 21:30 ` Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-05-26 20:19 atomlin
2013-05-27 17:39 ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-27 22:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28 4:31 ` Joe Perches
2013-05-28 6:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-05-28 6:08 ` Joe Perches
2013-05-28 17:15 ` Debabrata Banerjee
2013-05-29 7:36 ` Rik van Riel
2013-05-27 17:56 ` Sergei Shtylyov
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