When performing a cable pull test w/ active stress I/O using fio over a dual port Intel 82599 FCoE CNA, w/ 256LUNs on one port and about 32LUNs on the other, it is observed that the system becomes not usable due to scsi-ml being busy printing the error messages for all the failing commands. I don't believe this problem is specific to FCoE and these commands are anyway failing due to link being down (DID_NO_CONNECT), just rate-limit the messages here to solve this issue. Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: www.Open-FCoE.org <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index b2c95db..e2128d9 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -934,7 +934,8 @@ void scsi_io_completion(struct scsi_cmnd *cmd, unsigned int good_bytes) case ACTION_FAIL: /* Give up and fail the remainder of the request */ scsi_release_buffers(cmd); - if (!(req->cmd_flags & REQ_QUIET)) { + if (!(req->cmd_flags & REQ_QUIET) && + printk_ratelimit()) { if (description) scmd_printk(KERN_INFO, cmd, "%s\n", description); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html