qeth: enforce a rate limit for inbound scatter gather messages

under memory pressure scatter gather mode switching messages must be
rate limited.

Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c
index ba10d42a1a56..610d27cfd28b 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c
@@ -2803,13 +2803,16 @@ qeth_queue_input_buffer(struct qeth_card *card, int index)
                 if (newcount < count) {
                         /* we are in memory shortage so we switch back to
                            traditional skb allocation and drop packages */
-                        if (atomic_cmpxchg(&card->force_alloc_skb, 0, 1))
-                                printk(KERN_WARNING
-                                        "qeth: switch to alloc skb\n");
+                        if (!atomic_read(&card->force_alloc_skb) &&
+                            net_ratelimit())
+                                PRINT_WARN("Switch to alloc skb\n");
+                        atomic_set(&card->force_alloc_skb, 3);
                         count = newcount;
                 } else {
-                        if (atomic_cmpxchg(&card->force_alloc_skb, 1, 0))
-                                printk(KERN_WARNING "qeth: switch to sg\n");
+                        if ((atomic_read(&card->force_alloc_skb) == 1) &&
+                            net_ratelimit())
+                                PRINT_WARN("Switch to sg\n");
+                        atomic_add_unless(&card->force_alloc_skb, -1, 0);
                 }
 
                 /*