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net: bcmgenet: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations
authorDoug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:02:11 +0000 (16:02 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:50:01 +0000 (16:50 -0700)
commit195ce90e905e7817715d54ff1032abcea370863e
treef576e264b22fdafdc2f61486fe4f29db392ded0c
parent00b15616d9818bff51367abd70fd996b7e911b5e
net: bcmgenet: suppress warnings on failed Rx SKB allocations

The driver is designed to drop Rx packets and reclaim the buffers
when an allocation fails, and the network interface needs to safely
handle this packet loss. Therefore, an allocation failure of Rx
SKBs is relatively benign.

However, the output of the warning message occurs with a high
scheduling priority that can cause excessive jitter/latency for
other high priority processing.

This commit suppresses the warning messages to prevent scheduling
problems while retaining the failure count in the statistics of
the network interface.

Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/genet/bcmgenet.c