Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:38:57 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] quiet down swiotlb warnings |
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> An pci_map_sg failing typically leads to an IO error and we've > always printk'ed those. Otherwise people will wonder why they > get EIO.
In some situations. In this case the qla2xxx driver uses the pci_map_sg() failure as a throttling mechanism and printing out all the warnings will actually slow down the system.
Andi, what do you propose as a solution?
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