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Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:39:32 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: eric.dumazet@...il.com Cc: therbert@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tcp: Use LIMIT_NETDEBUG in syn_flood_warning() From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:08:30 +0200 > [PATCH] tcp: Use LIMIT_NETDEBUG in syn_flood_warning() > > LIMIT_NETDEBUG allows the admin to disable some warning messages : > echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/core/warnings > > Use it to avoid filling syslog on busy servers. > > Based on a previous patch from Tom Herbert > > Factorize syn_flood_warning() IPv4/IPv6 implementations > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> > CC: Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com> This is a big hammer with no granularity. I have to give up other potentially interesting log messages (open request drops, IP frag out-of-memory, etc.) just to get this one to go away. I still stand by my original suggestion, print unconditionally and only once, and also add the statistics counters. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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