bond_miimon_commit() handles the UP transition for each slave of a bond in the case of MII. It is triggered 10 times per second for the default MII Polling interval of 100ms. For device drivers that do not implement __ethtool_get_link_ksettings() the call to bond_update_speed_duplex() fails persistently while the MII status could remain UP. That is, in this and other cases where the speed/duplex update keeps failing over a longer period of time while the MII state is UP, a warning is printed every MII polling interval.
To address these excessive warnings net_ratelimit() should be used. Printing a warning once would not be sufficient since the call to bond_update_speed_duplex() could recover to succeed and fail again later. In that case there would be no new indication what went wrong. Fixes: b5bf0f5b16b9c (bonding: correctly update link status during mii-commit phase) Signed-off-by: Andreas Born <futur.a...@googlemail.com> --- Changes in v2: * swapped pr_warn_ratelimited() for net_ratelimit() drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c index 85bb272d2a34..fc63992ab0e0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -2144,9 +2144,10 @@ static void bond_miimon_commit(struct bonding *bond) if (bond_update_speed_duplex(slave) && bond_needs_speed_duplex(bond)) { slave->link = BOND_LINK_DOWN; - netdev_warn(bond->dev, - "failed to get link speed/duplex for %s\n", - slave->dev->name); + if (net_ratelimit()) + netdev_warn(bond->dev, + "failed to get link speed/duplex for %s\n", + slave->dev->name); continue; } bond_set_slave_link_state(slave, BOND_LINK_UP, -- 2.14.0