block: rate-limit the error message from failing commands

When performing a cable pull test w/ active stress I/O using fio over
a dual port Intel 82599 FCoE CNA, w/ 256LUNs on one port and about 32LUNs
on the other, it is observed that the system becomes not usable due to
scsi-ml being busy printing the error messages for all the failing commands.
I don't believe this problem is specific to FCoE and these commands are
anyway failing due to link being down (DID_NO_CONNECT), just rate-limit
the messages here to solve this issue.

v2->v1: use __ratelimit() as Tomas Henzl mentioned as the proper way for
rate-limit per function. However, in this case, the failed i/o gets to
blk_end_request_err() and then blk_update_request(), which also has to
be rate-limited, as added in the v2 of this patch.

v3-v2: resolved conflict to apply on current 3.6-rc3 upstream tip.

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Cc: www.Open-FCoE.org <devel@open-fcoe.org>
Cc: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 4b4dbdfbca89..ee3cb3a5e278 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -2254,9 +2254,11 @@ bool blk_update_request(struct request *req, int error, unsigned int nr_bytes)
                         error_type = "I/O";
                         break;
                 }
-                printk(KERN_ERR "end_request: %s error, dev %s, sector %llu\n",
-                       error_type, req->rq_disk ? req->rq_disk->disk_name : "?",
-                       (unsigned long long)blk_rq_pos(req));
+                printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR "end_request: %s error, dev %s, sector %llu\n",
+                                   error_type, req->rq_disk ?
+                                   req->rq_disk->disk_name : "?",
+                                   (unsigned long long)blk_rq_pos(req));
+
         }
 
         blk_account_io_completion(req, nr_bytes);