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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: <dave@barachs.net>
Cc: "'Ray Kinsella'" <mdr@ashroe.eu>,
	"'Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran'" <jerinj@marvell.com>,
	"'dpdk-dev'" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC]  DPDK Trace support
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 08:51:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200120085140.7f6988c3@hermes.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <011001d5ce11$fc804bd0$f580e370$@barachs.net>

On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:14:31 -0500
<dave@barachs.net> wrote:

> It would be well worth considering one of the vpp techniques to minimize trace impact:
> 
> static inline ring_handler_inline (..., int is_traced)
> {
>   for (i = 0; i < vector_size; i++)
>     {
>       if (is_traced)
> 	{
> 	  do_trace_work;
> 	}
>       normal_packet_processing;
>     }
> }
> 
> ring_handler (...)
> {
>   if (PREDICT_FALSE(global_trace_flag != 0))
>     return ring_handler_inline (..., 1 /* is_traced */);
>   else
>     return ring_handler_inline (..., 0 /* is_traced */);
> }
> 
> This reduces the runtime tax to the absolute minimum, but costs space. 
> 
> Please consider it.
> 
> HTH... Dave

LTTng already has tracepoint_enabled for this


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-13 10:40 Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2020-01-13 11:00 ` Ray Kinsella
2020-01-13 12:04   ` [dpdk-dev] [EXT] " Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2020-01-18 15:14   ` [dpdk-dev] " dave
2020-01-20 16:51     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-01-13 13:05 ` Bruce Richardson
2020-01-13 14:46   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-01-13 14:58     ` Bruce Richardson
2020-01-13 15:13       ` Jerin Jacob
2020-01-13 16:12         ` Bruce Richardson
2020-01-17  4:41           ` Jerin Jacob
2020-01-17  8:04             ` David Marchand
2020-01-17  9:52               ` Jerin Jacob
2020-01-17 10:30                 ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-01-17 10:54                   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-02-15 10:21                     ` Jerin Jacob
2020-02-17  9:35                       ` Mattias Rönnblom
2020-02-17 10:23                         ` Jerin Jacob
2020-01-17 10:43                 ` David Marchand
2020-01-17 11:08                   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-01-27 16:12 ` Aaron Conole
2020-01-27 17:23   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-01-20  4:48 Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran
2020-01-20 12:08 ` Ray Kinsella

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