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

[Stephen Hemminger]

We need info messages about topology etc from other components.

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:46 AM, David Marchand <david.marchand at 6wind.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>