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Commit b4c7d207 authored by Bjorn Helgaas's avatar Bjorn Helgaas
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PCI/LINK: Remove bandwidth notification

The PCIe Bandwidth Change Notification feature logs messages when the link
bandwidth changes.  Some users have reported that these messages occur
often enough to significantly reduce NVMe performance.  GPUs also seem to
generate these messages.

We don't know why the link bandwidth changes, but in the reported cases
there's no indication that it's caused by hardware failures.

Remove the bandwidth change notifications for now.  Hopefully we can add
this back when we have a better understanding of why this happens and how
we can make the messages useful instead of overwhelming.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115221008.GA191037@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/155605909349.3575.13433421148215616375.stgit@gimli.home/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206197


Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
parent 7c53f6b6
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