RE: [PATCH] habanalabs: rate limit error msg on waiting for CS

From: Tomer Tayar
Date: Wed Dec 04 2019 - 03:01:23 EST


On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 22:28, Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In case a user submits a CS, and the submission fails, and the user doesn't
> check the return value and instead use the error return value as a valid
> sequence number of a CS and ask to wait on it, the driver will print an
> error and return an error code for that wait.
>
> The real problem happens if now the user ignores the error of the wait, and
> try to wait again and again. This can lead to a flood of error messages
> from the driver and even soft lockup event.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Tomer Tayar <ttayar@xxxxxxxxx>