Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268907AbUIBUAD (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:00:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268767AbUIBT5a (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:57:30 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:4816 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268261AbUIBTw0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:52:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:52:19 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 reduce spurious interrupt noise Message-ID: <20040902195219.GJ5492@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Chris Wedgwood , LKML , Linus Torvalds References: <20040902192820.GA6427@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040902193454.GI5492@holomorphy.com> <20040902194739.GA6673@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040902194739.GA6673@taniwha.stupidest.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 849 Lines: 21 On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:34:54PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Please check printk_ratelimit(). On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:47:39PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > I don't want them displayed by default at *all* --- it wakes up the > monitor on console machines and that's annoying. > You get about 1 or 2 a day --- rate limiting isn't useful, nor is > reporting them IMO. > --cw That's okay. The reason why is that this is in response to an external stimulus which can, in principle, scream out of control, so even at KERN_DEBUG or other loglevels it's meaningful to rate limit it. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/