Re: [PATCH net-next 1/1] hv_netvsc: Check status in SEND_RNDIS_PKT completion message

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Feb 09 2023 - 15:22:01 EST


On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 19:10:16 +0000 Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> But I'm just worried about if a VM sending at high speed, and host side is,
> for some reason, not able to send them correctly, the log file will become
> really big and difficult to download and read. With rate limit, we still see
> dozens of messages every 5 seconds or so, and it tells you how many
> messages are skipped. And, if the rate is lower, it won't skip anything.
> Isn't this info sufficient to debug?
>
> By the way, guests cannot trust the host -- probably we shouldn't allow the
> host to have a way to jam guest's log file?

+1 FWIW, the general guidance is to always rate limit prints
which may be triggered from the datapath (which I'm guessing
this is based on the names of things)