linux-kernel - Re: [patch] ipv4: don't warn about skb ack allocation failures

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:04:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	rientjes@...gle.com
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	jpiszcz@...idpixels.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: don't warn about skb ack allocation failures

From: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:37:17 -0700 (PDT)

> That was possible because of the page allocation failure messages that 
> were noticed by the user; without this evidence, the only symptom would 
> have been extremely slow I/O over nfs.

That's garbage.

With tracing and statistics you could have noticed it too.

Just because the notification is more annoying and in your
face, does not mean it's implicitly better.
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