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From: Ed Czeck <ed.czeck@atomicrules.com>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/7] net/ark: PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville driver stub
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 17:11:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALZ3Guj-vF=-HrvUAt6ohAGgj6Yi5B3E_QE1esgmZTD2+xRZ5w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8625c310-943c-14b5-8215-b1f66bb94bb2@intel.com>

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
wrote:

> On 3/23/2017 7:46 PM, Ed Czeck wrote:
>
> >> > +#define ARK_TRACE_ON(fmt, ...) \
> >> > +     PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
> >> > +
> >> > +#define ARK_TRACE_OFF(fmt, ...) \
> >> > +     do {if (0) PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); } while (0)
> >> why not just "do { } while(0)" ?
> >
> > A do while body always executes at least once.  The if (0) is required.
>
> Are you sure about this?
>
> I believe "do { } while(0)" also removed completely during compile.
>
I verified that the if (0) is required.



>
>
> >> dev->data->dev_flags |= RTE_ETH_DEV_DETACHABLE;
> >
> > I do not understand your comment.
>
> This flag also should be added, all eth devices by are detachable.
>
Flag has been added.


>
>
> >> The general usage of DEBUG_TRACE is providing backtrace log, function
> >> enterance / exit informations. I guess, that is why it has been
> >> controlled by different config option.
> >> Here what you need looks like regular debugging functions, PMD_DRV_LOG /
> >> RTE_LOG variant.
> >
> > I'm unclear on your request or comment.  Are you suggesting that we use
> > the dpdk versions of debug?  The advantage of a local version is that
> > they can be enabled without all the debug traces.
>
> In many drivers there are independent log macros, two of them are:
> 1) PMD_.._TRACE
> 2) PMD_.._LOG
>
> Those above controlled by different config option.
>
> As name suggest, first one lets you to get function trace logs, many
> PMDs don't use them, since you can get this information from debugger.
>
> Second one is PMD wise log macro, controlled by its specific config option.
>
> It is possible enable / disable tracing logs (1), without effecting
> general logging macros (2).
>
> In ARK PMD, both ARK_DEBUG_TRACE and PMD_DRV_LOG macros are used for
> regular logging.
>
> a) I believe it is wrong to use ARK_DEBUG_TRACE for regular logging, all
> should be PMD_DRV_LOG
>
> b) And PMD_DRV_LOG should be controlled by a config option.
>
> As far as I can see ARK_DEBUG_TRACE never used for tracing really, so
> you can rename all occurrences to PMD_DRV_LOG, and remove
> ARK_DEBUG_TRACE and its config option.
>
> And introduce a config option for PMD_DRV_LOG
>
> Thank you.   I refactored the messaging and logging code to a set of
macros named PMD_<XX>_LOG, where  XX is one of {DEBUG, STATS, RX, TX,DRV}.
This follows the code pattern from the Intel PMDs.  Much of the logging has
been changed throughout the other patches as well.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-28 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-23  1:03 Ed Czeck
2017-03-23  1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 2/7] net/ark: HW API part 1 of 3 Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 11:38   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 20:33     ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-29  1:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 2/7] net/ark: Provide API for hardware modules mpu, rqp, and pktdir Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:32     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 2/7] net/ark: provide API for hardware modules mpu rqp " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:50       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23  1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 3/7] net/ark: HW API part 2 of 3 Ed Czeck
2017-03-29  1:05   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 3/7] net/ark: Provide API for hardware modules udm and ddm Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:33     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 3/7] net/ark: provide " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:50       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23  1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 4/7] net/ark: HW API part 3 of 3 Ed Czeck
2017-03-29  1:06   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 4/7] net/ark: Provide API for hardware modules pktchkr and pktgen Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:34     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 4/7] net/ark: provide " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:50       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23  1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 5/7] net/ark: Packet TX support initial version Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 12:14   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 21:44     ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-29  1:06   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:34     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 5/7] net/ark: packet Tx " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:51       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23  1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/7] net/ark: Packet RX " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 12:14   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 21:51     ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-29  1:06   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:35     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 6/7] net/ark: packet Rx " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:51       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23  1:03 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 7/7] net/ark: Arkville PMD component integration Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 12:13   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 22:19     ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 12:34       ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-29  1:07   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-29  9:54     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-29 21:35     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 7/7] net/ark: arkville " Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:51       ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 11:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 1/7] net/ark: PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville driver stub Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 13:08 ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 19:46   ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 12:58     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 21:11       ` Ed Czeck [this message]
2017-03-29  9:42         ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-23 22:59 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 2/7] net/ark: provide api to hardware module mpu, rqp, and pktdir Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:35     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 20:14       ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 3/7] net/ark: provide API hardware module udm and ddm Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 4/7] net/ark: prrovide api for hardware module pktchkr and pktgen Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:00   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 5/7] net/ark: Packet TX support initial version Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:01   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 6/7] net/ark: Packet RX " Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:36     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 21:59       ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-23 23:01   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 7/7] net/ark: Arkville PMD component integration Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:38     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 15:00       ` Adrien Mazarguil
2017-03-28 22:42       ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:34   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5 1/7] net/ark: PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville driver stub Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-28 22:38     ` Ed Czeck
2017-03-28 14:41   ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-29  1:04 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 " Ed Czeck
2017-03-29 21:32   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 1/7] net/ark: stub PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville Ed Czeck
2017-03-31 14:51     ` Ferruh Yigit
2017-03-31 15:09       ` Shepard Siegel
2017-04-04 20:58       ` Ed Czeck
2017-04-04 19:50     ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v8 " Ed Czeck
2017-04-07 10:54       ` Ferruh Yigit

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