netdev - RE: [PATCH 19/24] sunrpc: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages

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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:25:08 -0700
From:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	<joe@...ches.com>, <bfields@...ldses.org>, <neilb@...e.de>,
	<linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 19/24] sunrpc: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 6:04 PM
> To: bharrosh@...asas.com
> Cc: Myklebust, Trond; joe@...ches.com; bfields@...ldses.org;
> neilb@...e.de; linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org; netdev@...r.kernel.org;
> linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/24] sunrpc: Remove unnecessary OOM logging
> messages
> 
> From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:54:59 -0700
> 
> > I have a question about that. Are the dprints going to show the
stack
> backtrace?
> 
> Yes, OOMs give full stack backtraces.
> 
> > If yes above? then I'm not sure I like it either, because am I'll be
> getting a full
> > stack backtrace for every failed allocation?
> 
> They've been doing this for years, so obviously they haven't bothered
> you
> enough to care up to this point.
> 
> All of this pushback is pure uneducated noise, please stop blocking
> progress
> with poorly informed objections.

I can see that slub.c has the slab_out_of_memory() function that
(although ratelimited) warns you if the allocation failed. However I
can't find any equivalent for slab.c or slob.c.

Trond
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