netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] bonding: restrict up state in 802.3ad mode

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2016 16:35:50 +0800
From:	zhuyj <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
To:	Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:	emil.s.tantilov@...el.com, jay.vosburgh@...onical.com,
	vfalico@...il.com, gospo@...ulusnetworks.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, boris.shteinbock@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] bonding: restrict up state in 802.3ad mode

On 01/07/2016 03:59 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 03:37:26PM +0800, zhuyj wrote:
>>> If I read this right, whenever this state (link up but speed/duplex
>>> unknown) is entered, you'll keep writing this message into kernel log
>>> every miimon milliseconds until something changes. I'm not sure how long
>>> a NIC can stay in such state but it might get quite annoying (even more
>>> if something really goes wrong and NIC stays that way which can't be
>>> completely ruled out, IMHO).
>> Sure, Thanks a lot. I want to confirm link_up without link_speed. It
>> is not usual. So I think this only lasts for several seconds.
>> It is very important to us since it can help us to find the root cause.
> For debugging purposes it's fine, of course. But this looked like an
> officially submitted patch so I didn't like the idea of log spamming
> (even one second could result in 10-100 messages and admins certainly
> would hate that).
>
>                                                         Michal Kubecek
>
Thanks a lot.

Zhu Yanjun
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