Douglas Anderson [off-list ref] writes:
Every once in a while when my system is under a bit of stress I see
some spammy messages show up in my logs that say:
kevent X may have been dropped
As far as I can tell these messages aren't terribly useful.
I agree, FWIW. These messages just confuse users for no purpose at all.
quoted hunk
+ /* If work is already started this will mark it to run again when it
+ * finishes; if we already had work pending and it hadn't started
+ * yet then that's fine too.
+ */
+ schedule_work (&dev->kevent);
+ netdev_dbg(dev->net, "kevent %d scheduled\n", work);
Or maybe
if (schedule_work (&dev->kevent))
netdev_dbg(dev->net, "kevent %d scheduled\n", work);
? Not that I think it matters much.
Bjørn