netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: davinci_cpdma: remove excessive dump of register values to kernel log

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Message-Id: <20160725.175705.820422537273157170.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2016 17:57:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de
Cc:	mugunthanvnm@...com, grygorii.strashko@...com,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: davinci_cpdma: remove excessive dump of
 register values to kernel log

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:54:45 +0200

> Such a big dump of register values is hardly useful on a production
> system.
> 
> Another downside of the now removed functions is that calling
> emac_dump_regs resulted in at least 87 calls to dev_info while holding a
> spinlock and having irqs off which is a big source of latency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Applied.