netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: do not rate limit counter increments

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:30:46 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio_net: do not rate limit counter increments

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:28:09AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
> 
> While it is desirable to rate limit certain messages, it is not
> desirable to rate limit the incrementing of counters associated
> with those messages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>


Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>

Dave, can you apply pls? Thanks!

> ---
> 
> Compiled, and run briefly in a 1 vCPU guest under a netperf workload.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> index 019da01..4de2760 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> @@ -625,12 +625,13 @@ static netdev_tx_t start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>  
>  	/* This can happen with OOM and indirect buffers. */
>  	if (unlikely(capacity < 0)) {
> -		if (net_ratelimit()) {
> -			if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM)) {
> +		if (likely(capacity == -ENOMEM)) {
> +			if (net_ratelimit()) {
>  				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
>  					 "TX queue failure: out of memory\n");
>  			} else {
> -				dev->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
> +			dev->stats.tx_fifo_errors++;
> +			if (net_ratelimit())
>  				dev_warn(&dev->dev,
>  					 "Unexpected TX queue failure: %d\n",
>  					 capacity);
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