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block: rate-limit the error message from failing commands 

When performing a cable pull test w/ active stress I/O using fio over
a dual port Intel 82599 FCoE CNA, w/ 256LUNs on one port and about 32LUNs
on the other, it is observed that the system becomes not usable due to
scsi-ml being busy printing the error messages for all the failing commands.
I don't believe this problem is specific to FCoE and these commands are
anyway failing due to link being down (DID_NO_CONNECT), just rate-limit
the messages here to solve this issue.

v2->v1: use __ratelimit() as Tomas Henzl mentioned as the proper way for
rate-limit per function. However, in this case, the failed i/o gets to
blk_end_request_err() and then blk_update_request(), which also has to
be rate-limited, as added in the v2 of this patch.

v3-v2: resolved conflict to apply on current 3.6-rc3 upstream tip.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Cc: www.Open-FCoE.org <devel@open-fcoe.org>
Cc: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Yi Zou 2012-08-30 16:26:25 -07:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent 155e36d40c
commit 37d7b34f05
1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -2254,9 +2254,11 @@ bool blk_update_request(struct request *req, int error, unsigned int nr_bytes)
error_type = "I/O";
break;
}
printk(KERN_ERR "end_request: %s error, dev %s, sector %llu\n",
error_type, req->rq_disk ? req->rq_disk->disk_name : "?",
(unsigned long long)blk_rq_pos(req));
printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR "end_request: %s error, dev %s, sector %llu\n",
error_type, req->rq_disk ?
req->rq_disk->disk_name : "?",
(unsigned long long)blk_rq_pos(req));
}
blk_account_io_completion(req, nr_bytes);