Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:56:33 -0700 | Subject | Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 |
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>>>>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:27:35 -0700, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:
DaveM> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:59:11 -0700 DaveM> David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
>> The printk() is rate-controlled and doesn't happen for every unaligned >> access. It's average cost can be made as low as we want to, by adjusting >> the rate.
DaveM> But if the event is normal, you shouldn't be logging it as if DaveM> it weren't.
An event that causes a slow-down of 500 times or so is not "normal". On Alpha, we did have just a counter. Guess what, nobody ever noticed when things ran much slower than they should have.
DaveM> Anyone who tries to use IP over appletalk or certain protocols DaveM> over PPP are going to see your silly messages.
DaveM> As I understand it, you even do this stupid printk for user apps DaveM> as well, that makes it more than rediculious. I'd be surprised DaveM> if anyone can find any useful kernel messages on an ia64 system DaveM> in the dmesg output with all the unaligned access crap there.
Ever heard of prctl --unalign=silent? I don't normaly do that and I still get very few unaligned warning messages.
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