> I don't really accept this claim... > Short informative strings worth the tiny space they consume. There can be different opinions for their usefulness. > In addition, some out-of-memory errors are recoverable, even though their backtrace is also printed. How do you think about to suppress the backtrace generation for them? > For example, in function mlx4_en_create_cq (appears in patch) we have a first allocation attempt (kzalloc_node) Would it be helpful to pass the option “__GFP_NOWARN” there? > and a fallback (kzalloc). I'd prefer to state a clear error message only when both have failed, > because otherwise the user might be confused whether the backtrace should indicate a malfunctioning interface, or not. Can the distinction become easier by any other means? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
