[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2/trivial: Add default mask log for heartbeat.c
Sunil Mushran
sunil.mushran at oracle.com
Mon Dec 21 17:50:13 PST 2009
Tao Ma wrote:
> Sunil Mushran wrote:
>> Maybe better if we changed the two mlog(0,... to mlog(ML_HEARTBEAT,...
>>
>> Now I don't know why we don't have a default mask in that file but
>> instead
>> have distinct mlogs for HEARTBEAT and HB_BIO. One reason could have
>> been to
>> limit the logging of hb_bio. If that is correct, then adding a
>> default mask
>> will defeat the purpose.
> yeah, I just got that two mlog(0,...) and tried to find the default
> mask and failed. Don't know the real reason for it. Will redo the
> patch as you like.
>
> But the point I don't get is that why add a default mask will have an
> effect on mlog(ML_HB_BIO,...)?
Reverse. As in, if we make that the default, then the mlogs marked hb_bio
will also print when we only want heartbeat.
Now how does that matter? Probably very little, if at all. But we will be
revisiting tracing/logging sometime next year. So I would make minimal
changes in this area right now.
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