From: Yan Markman <ymark...@marvell.com> Prevent flood of RX error prints during heavy traffic with weak signal in link by checking net_ratelimit() before using netdev_err().
Signed-off-by: Yan Markman <ymark...@marvell.com> [Antoine: small rework, commit message] Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.ten...@bootlin.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c index a9483da18e00..f8ed983bc767 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.c @@ -6382,21 +6382,23 @@ static void mvpp2_rx_error(struct mvpp2_port *port, { u32 status = mvpp2_rxdesc_status_get(port, rx_desc); size_t sz = mvpp2_rxdesc_size_get(port, rx_desc); + char *err_str = NULL; switch (status & MVPP2_RXD_ERR_CODE_MASK) { case MVPP2_RXD_ERR_CRC: - netdev_err(port->dev, "bad rx status %08x (crc error), size=%zu\n", - status, sz); + err_str = "crc"; break; case MVPP2_RXD_ERR_OVERRUN: - netdev_err(port->dev, "bad rx status %08x (overrun error), size=%zu\n", - status, sz); + err_str = "overrun"; break; case MVPP2_RXD_ERR_RESOURCE: - netdev_err(port->dev, "bad rx status %08x (resource error), size=%zu\n", - status, sz); + err_str = "resource"; break; } + if (err_str && net_ratelimit()) + netdev_err(port->dev, + "bad rx status %08x (%s error), size=%zu\n", + status, err_str, sz); } /* Handle RX checksum offload */ -- 2.17.0