coverage: Rate-limit logging coverage information.

I'd always assumed that the exponentially weighted moving average code in timeval was enough rate-limiting, but I actually encountered a pathological case some time ago that forced this coverage information to print once a second or so, which seems too often. Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
lynn901 · Apr 26, 2012 · 275a506 · 275a506
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diff --git a/lib/coverage.c b/lib/coverage.c
@@ -158,11 +158,14 @@ coverage_log_counter(enum vlog_level level, const struct coverage_counter *c)
 void
 coverage_log(enum vlog_level level, bool suppress_dups)
 {
+    static struct vlog_rate_limit rl = VLOG_RATE_LIMIT_INIT(1, 3);
     size_t n_never_hit;
     uint32_t hash;
     size_t i;
 
-    if (!vlog_is_enabled(THIS_MODULE, level)) {
+    if (suppress_dups
+        ? !vlog_is_enabled(THIS_MODULE, level)
+        : vlog_should_drop(THIS_MODULE, level, &rl)) {
         return;
     }