[dpdk-dev] Too verbose PMD init logs - intended or not?

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Wed May 13 11:13:29 CEST 2015


Hi,

2015-05-13 08:47, Joongi Kim:
> Hello,
> I found that the following commit and post are conflicting with each other:
> 1)
> http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=23f91f32f2b119f1376488d87be2b80b078a945e
> 2) http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-April/016361.html
> Is there a consensus on how verbose PMD init processes should be?
> (i.e., Is this an intended behavior or a bug?)

Yes, debug logs should use the debug level. Simple :)

> I'd like to see if my ports are initialized, but not what memory addresses
> they are attached for each ring. (Most of PMD init logs are only useful
> when debugging!)
> 
> My configuration (.config) says CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_IXGBE_DEBUG_INIT=n and my
> program explicitly set the debug level to INFO by calling
> rte_set_log_level(), but *still* the ixgbe pmd generates a lot of
> PMD_INIT_LOG(DEBUG, ...) messages.

I guess you are not using the HEAD.
This commit should solve your problem:
	http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/commit/?id=23e4bf20a16d34

> For workaround, I'm currently roll-backing the commit 23f91f3 manually for
> my build and then it becomes silent.

Please confirm it's fixed in HEAD.


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