net/i40e: unhelpful warning messages
Bruce Richardson
bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Jan 21 17:43:18 CET 2025
On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 06:11:29PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Got new machine setup with XL710 NIC's and testing out DPDK.
>
> When device is first used by DPDK see these messages.
> Which are at warning level which by definition means something is wrong.
> And the messages are unhelpful; they mean some to the developer but not to a user.
>
> I40E_DRIVER: i40e_GLQF_reg_init(): i40e device 0000:02:00.0 changed global register [0x002689a0]. original: 0x00000000, new: 0x00000029
> I40E_DRIVER: i40e_GLQF_reg_init(): i40e device 0000:02:00.0 changed global register [0x00268ca4]. original: 0x00001840, new: 0x00009420
> I40E_DRIVER: i40e_aq_debug_write_global_register(): i40e device 0000:02:00.0 changed global register [0x0026c7a0]. original: 0xa8, after: 0x28
Agree with this assessment.
Now submitted patch to reduce log level to INFO[1]
/Bruce
[1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20250121163539.2308702-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com/
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