From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>,
Sunil Kumar Kori <skori@marvell.com>,
dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] eal: add build-time option to omit trace
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:30:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240924083023.28bf896a@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240924133957.1505113-1-mb@smartsharesystems.com>
On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 13:39:57 +0000
Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> Some applications want to omit the trace feature.
> Either to reduce the memory footprint, to reduce the exposed attack
> surface, or for other reasons.
>
> This patch adds an option in rte_config.h to include or omit trace in the
> build. Trace is included by default.
>
> Omitting trace works by omitting all trace points.
> For API and ABI compatibility, the trace feature itself remains.
>
> Signed-off-by: Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
This is good compact solution. In future, it would be nice if DPDK could
use static keys to isolate rarely used features. But static keys require
runtime modification of instructions.
https://docs.kernel.org/6.7/staging/static-keys.html
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-24 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-18 8:55 [PATCH] " Morten Brørup
2024-09-18 9:49 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-18 10:23 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-19 8:06 ` [PATCH v2] " Morten Brørup
2024-09-19 8:51 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-19 13:15 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-19 13:54 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-19 15:35 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-19 15:49 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-19 16:08 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-19 16:34 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-20 9:08 ` [PATCH v3] " Morten Brørup
2024-09-23 8:39 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-24 13:50 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-24 13:39 ` [PATCH v4] " Morten Brørup
2024-09-24 15:30 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2024-09-24 15:41 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-09-24 15:53 ` Morten Brørup
2024-09-24 15:57 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-10-01 13:49 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-01 14:05 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-10-01 14:14 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-01 15:01 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-10-01 16:01 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-01 16:06 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-10-01 16:15 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-02 16:17 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-10-06 12:58 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-06 12:38 ` [PATCH v5] " Morten Brørup
2024-10-06 13:58 ` [PATCH v6] " Morten Brørup
2024-10-07 5:45 ` Jerin Jacob
2024-10-07 6:07 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-06 14:03 ` [PATCH v7] " Morten Brørup
2024-10-06 14:09 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-07 11:46 ` [PATCH v9] " Morten Brørup
2024-10-08 7:16 ` Morten Brørup
2024-10-08 10:15 ` David Marchand
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