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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Koki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com,
	kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	nhorman@tuxdriver.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, bruce.w.allan@intel.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com,
	john.ronciak@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] netdev: buffer infrastructure to log network driver's information
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:42:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270456946.1971.27.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BB988C9.9070709@jp.fujitsu.com>

Le lundi 05 avril 2010 à 15:52 +0900, Koki Sanagi a écrit :
> This patch implements buffer infrastructure under driver/net.
> This buffer records information from network driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Koki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/Kconfig     |    8 +
>   drivers/net/Makefile    |    1 +
>   drivers/net/ndrvbuf.c   |  535 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/linux/ndrvbuf.h |   57 +++++
>   4 files changed, 601 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 

Wow, 600 lines... thats what I call bloat...

Why no use a very simple interface (printk like) ?

xxx_printf(dev->trace, "xmit qidx=%u ntu=%d->%d\n",
	   tx_ring->queue_index, first, tx_ring->next_to_use);

Anyway, this has nothing to do with network drivers and should be
discussed on lkml.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-05  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-05  6:50 [RFC PATCH 0/2] netdev: implement a buffer to log network driver's information Koki Sanagi
2010-04-05  6:52 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] netdev: buffer infrastructure " Koki Sanagi
2010-04-05  8:42   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-04-05 19:31     ` David Miller
2010-04-06  0:10       ` Neil Horman
2010-04-06  5:43         ` Koki Sanagi
2010-04-05  6:54 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] netdev: an usage example on igb Koki Sanagi
2010-04-05  8:30   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-06  5:40     ` Koki Sanagi

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