Re: [PATCH v2] IB/mlx5: avoid excessive warning msgs when creating VFs on 2nd port

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 02:15:08PM -0700, Qing Huang wrote:
> When a CX5 device is configured in dual-port RoCE mode, after creating
> many VFs against port 1, creating the same number of VFs against port 2
> will flood kernel/syslog with something like
> "mlx5_*:mlx5_ib_bind_slave_port:4266:(pid 5269): port 2 already
> affiliated."
> 
> So basically, when traversing mlx5_ib_dev_list, mlx5_ib_add_slave_port()
> repeatedly attempts to bind the new mpi structure to every device
> on the list until it finds an unbound device.
> 
> Change the log level from warn to dbg to avoid log flooding as the warning
> should be harmless.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qing Huang <qing.huang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jurgens <danielj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   v1 -> v2: change the log level instead

Applied to for-next

Thanks,
Jason