Message-ID: <1497373252.18751.19.camel@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add printk for bonding module packets_per_slave
 parameter
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: jtoppins@redhat.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
        michael.j.dilmore@gmail.com
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        netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:00:52 -0700
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On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 12:42 -0400, Jonathan Toppins wrote:
> On 06/13/2017 12:21 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 11:34 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Michael Dilmore <michael.j.dilmore@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:42:46 +0100
> > > 
> > > > The packets per slave parameter used by round robin mode does not have a printk debug
> > > > message in its set function in bond_options.c. Adding such a function would aid debugging
> > > > of round-robin mode and allow the user to more easily verify that the parameter has been
> > > > set correctly. I should add that I'm motivated by my own experience here - it's not
> > > > obvious from output of tools such as wireshark and ifstat that the parameter is working
> > > > correctly, and with the differences in bonding configuration across different distributions,
> > > > it would have been comforting to see this output.
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> > > You can verify things by simplying reading the value back.
> > > 
> > > If every parameter emitted a kernel log message, it would be
> > > unreadable.
> > > 
> > > I'm not applying this, sorry.
> > 
> > I agree.  Noisy logging output is not good.
> > 
> > Perhaps a general conversion of the dozens
> > of existing netdev_info uses in this file to
> > netdev_dbg and adding this at netdev_dbg is
> > appropriate.
> 
> In general I agree. The few times I have debugged bonds, I always ended
> up enabling debug prinks anyway. I don't see a problem moving these to
> debug as well.
> 
> Adding nik whom converted a lot of this code to common paths for input.

If Nikolay agrees with the conversion, it's trivial.
Please submit it.  I did it just for reference.

Stylistic nits about the existing file:

There are some inconsistencies in pr_info/pr_err uses
with invalid inputs.

It would also be nicer if the forward static declarations
were removed and the static definitions reordered.