[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] ixgbe: silence noisy log messages

David Marchand david.marchand at 6wind.com
Tue May 19 09:46:19 CEST 2015


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Stephen Hemminger <
stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 18 May 2015 10:32:01 +0100
> Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> > For the most part, this looks fine. However, I'm unsure about changing
> the log
> > level of the messages stating what the RX and TX burst functions in use
> are. I
> > would view this as important information that should generally be
> displayed as
> > the performance impacts of using a sub-optimal RX/TX code path are large.
> >
> > /Bruce
>
>
> At INFO level it shows up in log files that customers read.
> This is an issue where DPDK has to grow up and be ready for real world
> use, rather than being developer friendly.
>
> Our customers ask about every log message (believe me). So if there
> is no problem the drivers must be absolutely silent (STFU)
>

Are there messages at INFO level you want to keep ?
Or can't you just set the log level (the runtime option not the build one)
to something like WARNING or ERR ?


-- 
David Marchand


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