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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Allain Legacy <allain.legacy@windriver.com>
Cc: mtetsuyah@gmail.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, dev@dpdk.org,
	matt.peters@windriver.com,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: change mbuf allocation logs to debug
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:48:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170328064841.GZ18844@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170327162930.54281-1-allain.legacy@windriver.com>

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:29:30PM -0400, Allain Legacy wrote:
> From: Matt Peters <matt.peters@windriver.com>
> 
> The current packet buffer alloc failures of the vhost dequeue operations
> can flood the log system with error logs due to logging a runtime error
> condition within the data path.

I agree that we should avoid flood. But somehow I think it's valueable
to print such message. It could simply mean you don't have enough mbuf
created, or, unlikely, mbuf leak happended.

> In order to prevent this condition, but
> still enable debugging, the logs are being changed to debug logs to ensure
> they are not emitted unless the CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_DEBUG option is
> enabled.

That basically means you will never see them in real life. I'm suggesting
to add a new log API, RTE_LOG_ONCE. Sounds good?

	--yliu
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Peters <matt.peters@windriver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Allain Legacy <allain.legacy@windriver.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> index 337470d64..850b56082 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_vhost/virtio_net.c
> @@ -901,7 +901,7 @@ copy_desc_to_mbuf(struct virtio_net *dev, struct vring_desc *descs,
>  		if (mbuf_avail == 0) {
>  			cur = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(mbuf_pool);
>  			if (unlikely(cur == NULL)) {
> -				RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_DATA, "Failed to "
> +				LOG_DEBUG(VHOST_DATA, "Failed to "
>  					"allocate memory for mbuf.\n");
>  				return -1;
>  			}
> @@ -1129,7 +1129,7 @@ rte_vhost_dequeue_burst(int vid, uint16_t queue_id,
>  
>  		pkts[i] = rte_pktmbuf_alloc(mbuf_pool);
>  		if (unlikely(pkts[i] == NULL)) {
> -			RTE_LOG(ERR, VHOST_DATA,
> +			LOG_DEBUG(VHOST_DATA,
>  				"Failed to allocate memory for mbuf.\n");
>  			break;
>  		}
> -- 
> 2.12.1

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-28  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-27 16:29 Allain Legacy
2017-03-28  6:48 ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2017-03-28 11:39   ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-29  7:01     ` Yuanhan Liu
2017-03-29 22:45       ` Legacy, Allain
2017-03-30  1:49         ` Yuanhan Liu

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