netdev - Re: Rate limiting AP bandwidth change messages in ieee80211_config

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Date:	Wed, 30 Sep 2015 20:32:17 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
Cc:	drago01 <drago01@...il.com>,
	"linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Rate limiting AP bandwidth change messages in
 ieee80211_config_bw?

On Wed, 2015-09-30 at 13:02 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> We've seen a handful of reports that seem to have verbose output from
> the ieee80211_config_bw function in net/mac80211/mlme.c.  It looks
> similar to this:
> 
> [   66.578652] wlp3s0: AP xx:xx:xx:xx:xx changed bandwidth, new config
> is 2437 MHz, width 2 (2447/0 MHz)
> [   68.522437] wlp3s0: AP xx:xx:xx:xx:xx changed bandwidth, new config
> is 2437 MHz, width 1 (2437/0 MHz)

> Essentially, this looks like the AP is changing the bandwidth (and
> only the width) every second or so.  Why it is doing this, I'm not
> sure.  However, this doesn't seem to actually be an error case yet the
> kernel logs are getting spammed with this message.
> 
> I'm wondering if we could either change this message to use sdata_dbg
> instead of sdata_info, or if we could possibly ratelimit it somehow.
> I'd be happy to come up with a patch for either, but I wanted to get
> your feedback on it before I started.  Do you have any objections or
> preference?
> 

I'm not sure ratelimiting it would even work - it's not *that* high
frequency? Not really sure though.

I think we can do either, it's not such a terribly important message as
far as I can tell.

johannes
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