From: "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>
To: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
"Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
"Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>,
"Yigit, Ferruh" <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: disable init and driver logs by default
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 01:56:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F35DEAC7BCE34641BA9FAC6BCA4A12E71AA55908@SHSMSX103.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170406171630.6114f6c2@glumotte.dev.6wind.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier MATZ [mailto:olivier.matz@6wind.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:17 PM
> To: Richardson, Bruce
> Cc: Zhang, Helin; dev@dpdk.org; Wu, Jingjing; Yigit, Ferruh
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/i40e: disable init and driver logs by default
>
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 15:36:43 +0100, Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 03:31:23PM +0100, Zhang, Helin wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Olivier Matz [mailto:olivier.matz@6wind.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 10:17 PM
> > > To: dev@dpdk.org
> > > Cc: Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang@intel.com>; Wu, Jingjing
> > > <jingjing.wu@intel.com>; Richardson, Bruce
> > > <bruce.richardson@intel.com>; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> > > Subject: [PATCH] net/i40e: disable init and driver logs by default
> > >
> > > Since "net/i40e: use dynamic log type for control logs", the i40e driver is
> more verbose by default, which could result in testpmd being flooded by log
> messages in some conditions:
> > >
> > > Checking link statuses...
> > > i40e_dev_handle_aq_msg(): Request 2561 is not supported yet
> > > i40e_dev_handle_aq_msg(): Request 2561 is not supported yet
> > > i40e_dev_handle_aq_msg(): Request 2561 is not supported yet
> > > i40e_dev_handle_aq_msg(): Request 2561 is not supported yet
> > > Port 0 Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex
> > > Port 1 Link Up - speed 40000 Mbps - full-duplex
> > > Done
> > > testpmd> i40e_dev_handle_aq_msg(): Request 4097 is not supported yet
> > > i40e_dev_handle_aq_msg(): Request 4097 is not supported yet
> > > i40e_dev_handle_aq_msg(): Request 4097 is not supported yet
> > >
> > > Fix this by disabling the dynamic logs by default. It is still possible to enable
> them at runtime.
> > >
> > > Fixes: c143e5a3d9e1 ("net/i40e: use dynamic log type for control
> > > logs")
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> > > Acked-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 4 ++--
> > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
> > > b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c index cb8bf2b49..86f5669f0 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
> > > @@ -12456,8 +12456,8 @@ i40e_init_log(void) {
> > > i40e_logtype_init = rte_log_register("pmd.i40e.init");
> > > if (i40e_logtype_init >= 0)
> > > - rte_log_set_level(i40e_logtype_init, RTE_LOG_NOTICE);
> > > + rte_log_set_level(i40e_logtype_init, RTE_LOG_EMERG);
> > > i40e_logtype_driver = rte_log_register("pmd.i40e.driver");
> > > if (i40e_logtype_driver >= 0)
> > > - rte_log_set_level(i40e_logtype_driver, RTE_LOG_NOTICE);
> > > + rte_log_set_level(i40e_logtype_driver, RTE_LOG_EMERG);
> > > }
> > > --
> >
> > Hi Helin,
> >
> > Is this the correct fix? IMHO, if this is a problem, then we should
> > surely not be hiding and ignoring the error. If it's not a problem,
> > then the log level should be reduced to a lower level, e.g. INFO or NOTICE.
> >
> > Alternatively, this code could be modified to only print an error once
> > for each unsupported request type.
> >
> > Ideally both solutions should be used, I think. I'm not sure I like
> > setting the default log level to just show EMERG messages.
>
> Yes, now that these logs are not stripped at compilation, we should do an
> effort to have the proper default log value (notice, warning, error?), and have
> the proper log level on each log, depending on its criticality and maybe its
> frequency (maybe we'll want to rate limit the logs in the future).
>
> This is a more global discussion, which is not especially related to i40e (the only
> part of code that currently use dynamic logs).
>
> Olivier
The issue is being analyzed now, definitely we will track that with a conclusion
of a fix or not an issue. So it will not be missed. Thanks for your reminder!
For the patch itself, I am OK with that changes.
Regards,
Helin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-07 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-06 14:16 Olivier Matz
2017-04-06 14:31 ` Zhang, Helin
2017-04-06 14:36 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-04-06 15:16 ` Olivier MATZ
2017-04-07 1:56 ` Zhang, Helin [this message]
2017-04-07 2:03 ` Zhang, Helin
2017-04-12 3:12 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2017-04-12 10:02 ` Bruce Richardson
2017-04-13 9:14 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-04-13 11:03 ` Lu, Wenzhuo
2017-04-14 8:55 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-04-06 14:39 ` Thomas Monjalon
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