Re: [dpdk-dev] Too verbose PMD init logs - intended or not?

[Joongi Kim <joongi@an.kaist.ac.kr>]

Thanks for quick reply.
I have been using the v2.0.0 release branch, and switching to the master
eliminates the issue.

- Joongi

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:14 PM Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2015-05-13 08:47, Joongi Kim:
> > Hello,
> > I found that the following commit and post are conflicting with each
> other:
> > 1)
> >
> http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=23f91f32f2b119f1376488d87be2b80b078a945e
> > 2) http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-April/016361.html
> > Is there a consensus on how verbose PMD init processes should be?
> > (i.e., Is this an intended behavior or a bug?)
>
> Yes, debug logs should use the debug level. Simple :)
>
> > I'd like to see if my ports are initialized, but not what memory
> addresses
> > they are attached for each ring. (Most of PMD init logs are only useful
> > when debugging!)
> >
> > My configuration (.config) says CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IXGBE_DEBUG_INIT=n and
> my
> > program explicitly set the debug level to INFO by calling
> > rte_set_log_level(), but *still* the ixgbe pmd generates a lot of
> > PMD_INIT_LOG(DEBUG, ...) messages.
>
> I guess you are not using the HEAD.
> This commit should solve your problem:
>         http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=23e4bf20a16d34
>
> > For workaround, I'm currently roll-backing the commit 23f91f3 manually
> for
> > my build and then it becomes silent.
>
> Please confirm it's fixed in HEAD.
>