Re: [PATCH] quiet down swiotlb warnings

[Rik van Riel]

Andi Kleen wrote:

> An pci_map_sg failing typically leads to an IO error and we've
> always printk'ed those. Otherwise people will wonder why they
> get EIO.

In some situations.  In this case the qla2xxx driver uses
the pci_map_sg() failure as a throttling mechanism and
printing out all the warnings will actually slow down the
system.

Andi, what do you propose as a solution?

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