linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: ratelimit the file system mounted message

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Date:	Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:12:15 +1000
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: ratelimit the file system mounted message

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 02:59:57PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> The xfstests ext4/305 will mount and unmount the same file system over
> 4,000 times, and each one of these will cause a system log message.
> Ratelimit this message since if we are getting more than a few dozen
> of these messages, they probably aren't going to be helpful.

Perhaps you should look at fixing the test or making it a more
targetted reproducer. Tests that do "loop doing something basic
while looping doing something else basic for X minutes to try to
trip a race condition" aren't very good regression tests....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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