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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:11:17 +0100
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
To: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...well.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: ratelimit kevent may have been dropped warnings
On Thursday 08 November 2012 16:26:21 Steve Glendinning wrote:
> when something goes wrong, a flood of these messages can be
> generated by usbnet (thousands per second). This doesn't
> generally *help* the condition so this patch ratelimits the
> rate of their generation.
>
> There's an underlying problem in usbnet's kevent deferral
> mechanism which needs fixing, specifically that events *can*
> get dropped and not handled. This patch doesn't address this,
> but just mitigates fallout caused by the current implemention.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...well.net>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
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