NeilBrown> raid10 arrays can usefully be very large. When they are, NeilBrown> the noise generated by print_conf can over-whelm logs. So NeilBrown> truncate the listing at 16 devices. Why is this too noisy and how often does this print_conf() happen? And why 16 devices? I guess I don't like the magic number of 16 here, I'd prefer it to be a define, and possibly even something that can by dynamically changed. But how big a problem is this really? And what about for big RAID5/6 arrays as well? Or would it be also good to condence the output of print_conf() itself? Of if it's noise, why not just remove it completely? Can this information be found in /proc/mdstat instead? Sorry I havent' looked in the code deeply, but this just struck me as a change that might not be ideal. Thanks, John NeilBrown> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> NeilBrown> --- NeilBrown> drivers/md/raid10.c | 4 +++- NeilBrown> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) NeilBrown> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c NeilBrown> index 61091ab02a4b..5d40612d6219 100644 NeilBrown> --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c NeilBrown> +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c NeilBrown> @@ -1610,7 +1610,7 @@ static void print_conf(struct r10conf *conf) NeilBrown> /* This is only called with ->reconfix_mutex held, so NeilBrown> * rcu protection of rdev is not needed */ NeilBrown> - for (i = 0; i < conf->geo.raid_disks; i++) { NeilBrown> + for (i = 0; i < conf->geo.raid_disks && i < 16; i++) { NeilBrown> char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE]; NeilBrown> rdev = conf->mirrors[i].rdev; NeilBrown> if (rdev) NeilBrown> @@ -1619,6 +1619,8 @@ static void print_conf(struct r10conf *conf) NeilBrown> !test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags), NeilBrown> bdevname(rdev->bdev,b)); NeilBrown> } NeilBrown> + if (conf->geo.raid_disks > 16) NeilBrown> + printk(KERN_DEBUG " remaining devices excluded for brevity\n"); NeilBrown> } NeilBrown> static void close_sync(struct r10conf *conf) NeilBrown> -- NeilBrown> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in NeilBrown> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx NeilBrown> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html