linux-kernel - Re: RDS: TCP: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in rds_tcp_init

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Date:   Mon, 22 May 2017 16:32:58 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        rds-devel@....oracle.com, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RDS: TCP: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation
 in rds_tcp_init_net()

>> Omit an extra message for a memory allocation failure in this function.
> 
> The change itself is harmless,  but I'm curious about the "extra"
> part: "extra" from what? If this happens, hopefully this will be logged
> somewhere? Note that this type of (infrequent) logging noise is useful
> in some cases, e.g., with 8ce675ff, when one is trying to do the
> post-mortem of where things first went wrong.

Do you find information from a Linux allocation failure report sufficient
for such an use case?

Regards,
Markus