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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, nlaw@brocade.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] vhost: don't stall if guest is slow
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 11:12:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151208031208.GJ29571@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3746283.SiKfvnY0NL@xps13>

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 03:30:43AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-12-08 10:23, Yuanhan Liu:
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 04:50:21PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > When guest is booting (or any othertime guest is busy) it is possible
> > > for the small receive ring (256) to get full. If this happens the
> > > vhost library should just return normally. It's current behavior
> > > of logging just creates massive log spew/overflow which could even
> > > act as a DoS attack against host.
> > > 
> > > Reported-by: Nathan Law <nlaw@brocade.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Yuanhan, please what is your opinion about the balance benefit/risk
> of this patch for 2.2?

Thomas,

I agree with Stephen that such log is not necessary as it's a fair
normal case. However, I see no too much benefit/risk for 2.2: it
just removes a debug log after all.

	--yliu

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-08  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-08  0:50 Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-08  2:23 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-12-08  2:30   ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-08  3:12     ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
2015-12-09 20:02       ` Thomas Monjalon

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