linux-wireless.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Bruno Randolf <br1@einfach.org>
Cc: ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/3] ath5k: add driver tracepoints
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:54:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1279612459.3706.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201007201411.51259.br1@einfach.org>

On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 14:11 +0900, Bruno Randolf wrote:

> hmm, this is really nice stuff, but i'm not sure what to do on embedded boards 
> where we don't have python or where it's not possible to use tracing in 
> general due to (low) performance reasons

err, tracing has much better performance than printk, and you can get
the trace into a file that you can analyse offline on a "real" machine.
No need for python on the board, and tracing improves performance over
printk.

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-20  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-17 19:35 [PATCH/RFC 0/3] ath5k: add driver tracepoints Bob Copeland
2010-07-17 19:35 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/3] ath5k: log descriptor chains at a new debug level Bob Copeland
2010-07-20  5:01   ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-17 19:35 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/3] ath5k: use tracing for packet tx/rx dump Bob Copeland
2010-07-17 19:35 ` [PATCH/RFC 3/3] ath5k: trace resets Bob Copeland
2010-07-20  5:20   ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-20 14:52     ` Bob Copeland
2010-07-21  1:04       ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-21  1:12         ` [ath5k-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-07-21  3:41         ` Bob Copeland
2010-07-21  5:17           ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-21  5:46             ` Ben Gamari
2010-07-21  7:53             ` Johannes Berg
2010-07-22  9:21               ` Bruno Randolf
2010-07-20  5:11 ` [ath5k-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/3] ath5k: add driver tracepoints Bruno Randolf
2010-07-20  7:54   ` Johannes Berg [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1279612459.3706.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net \
    --to=johannes@sipsolutions.net \
    --cc=ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org \
    --cc=br1@einfach.org \
    --cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=me@bobcopeland.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).