On Mon, 21 May 2007 21:58:55 +0200
Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> The warning in the NOHZ code, which triggers when a CPU goes idle with
> softirqs pending can fill up the logs quite quickly. Rate limit the
> output until we found the root cause of that problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
>
> Index: linux-2.6.21/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21.orig/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> +++ linux-2.6.21/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
> @@ -167,9 +167,15 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
> goto end;
>
> cpu = smp_processor_id();
> - if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending()))
> - printk(KERN_ERR "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending %02x\n",
> - local_softirq_pending());
> + if (unlikely(local_softirq_pending())) {
> + static int ratelimit;
> +
> + if (ratelimit < 10) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending %02x\n",
> + local_softirq_pending());
> + ratelimit++;
> + }
> + }
that's not a "rate" limit. I resist the temptation to rename it to "limit"
to keep mainline and -stable in sync, and coz it's temporary (we hope).
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