netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/5] bnx2: Print warning when unable to allocate the full SKB/page ring.

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Date:	Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:05:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mchan@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] bnx2: Print warning when unable to allocate the
 full SKB/page ring.

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:49:20 -0800

> 
> On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 13:08 -0800, David Miller wrote:
>> Applied, but I would rate limit this thing.
>> 
>> It could especially be problematic if this condition is
>> triggered when the device is being used for netconsole.
>> 
> 
> We only do the printk() during init. time if we cannot allocate buffers
> for the whole ring.  printk() is not used at all during run-time.

Thanks for clearing that up.  I mistakedly thought this was for
the buffers not the ring.
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