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SubjectRE: [PATCH 19/24] sunrpc: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 6:04 PM
> To: bharrosh@panasas.com
> Cc: Myklebust, Trond; joe@perches.com; bfields@fieldses.org;
> neilb@suse.de; linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/24] sunrpc: Remove unnecessary OOM logging
> messages
>
> From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:54:59 -0700
>
> > I have a question about that. Are the dprints going to show the
stack
> backtrace?
>
> Yes, OOMs give full stack backtraces.
>
> > If yes above? then I'm not sure I like it either, because am I'll be
> getting a full
> > stack backtrace for every failed allocation?
>
> They've been doing this for years, so obviously they haven't bothered
> you
> enough to care up to this point.
>
> All of this pushback is pure uneducated noise, please stop blocking
> progress
> with poorly informed objections.

I can see that slub.c has the slab_out_of_memory() function that
(although ratelimited) warns you if the allocation failed. However I
can't find any equivalent for slab.c or slob.c.

Trond


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