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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] ixgbe: silence noisy log messages
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 09:39:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150518093956.0e5411d3@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150518093201.GD1636@bricha3-MOBL3>

On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:32:01 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:

> For the most part, this looks fine. However, I'm unsure about changing the log
> level of the messages stating what the RX and TX burst functions in use are. I
> would view this as important information that should generally be displayed as
> the performance impacts of using a sub-optimal RX/TX code path are large.
> 
> /Bruce


At INFO level it shows up in log files that customers read.
This is an issue where DPDK has to grow up and be ready for real world
use, rather than being developer friendly.

Our customers ask about every log message (believe me). So if there
is no problem the drivers must be absolutely silent (STFU)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-18 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-15 17:08 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/5] ixgbe: logging patches Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-15 17:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] ixgbe: remove unnecessary casts Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-18  9:24   ` Bruce Richardson
2015-05-15 17:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] ixgbe: don't print PCI address on link change Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-18  9:32   ` Bruce Richardson
2015-05-15 17:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] ixgbe: raise priority of significant events Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-18  9:27   ` Bruce Richardson
2015-05-15 17:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] ixgbe: use RTE_LOG not rte_log Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-18  9:28   ` Bruce Richardson
2015-05-15 17:08 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] ixgbe: silence noisy log messages Stephen Hemminger
2015-05-18  9:32   ` Bruce Richardson
2015-05-18 16:39     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-05-19  7:46       ` David Marchand
2015-05-19 14:40         ` Stephen Hemminger

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