[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovn: log dhcp responses at INFO for debugging

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Sep 1 04:34:56 UTC 2016


On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 12:20:46AM +0000, Ramu Ramamurthy wrote:
> Since dhcp responses are important for debugging the vif lifecycle,
> we want to log them at info level which is the default log level.
> A logsearch (on macaddr) can quickly tell the dhcp status using 
> such messages. There is no need to rate limit such logs
> because, we expect dhcp messages to be at low rate normally.

Any log message that can be generated by receiving a network packet
needs to be rate-limited.  If the messages are actually received at a
low rate, then there's no disadvantage.


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