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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] adding tracepoints to vhost
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:42:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120410124250.GB29808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJSP0QWA1z6_YQe9hhpG7bCyZQarmU5NXbHsLGTL_zPTk3dOUA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> > To help in vhost analyzing, the following series adding basic tracepoints to
> > vhost. Operations of both virtqueues and vhost works were traced in current
> > implementation, net code were untouched. A top-like satistics displaying script
> > were introduced to help the troubleshooting.
> >
> > TODO:
> > - net specific tracepoints?
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Jason Wang (2):
> >      vhost: basic tracepoints
> >      tools: virtio: add a top-like utility for displaying vhost satistics
> >
> >
> >  drivers/vhost/trace.h   |  153 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/vhost/vhost.c   |   17 ++
> >  tools/virtio/vhost_stat |  360 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 528 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/trace.h
> >  create mode 100755 tools/virtio/vhost_stat
> 
> Perhaps this can replace the vhost log feature?  I'm not sure if
> tracepoints support the right data types but it seems like vhost
> debugging could be done using tracing with less code.
> 
> Stefan

vhost log is not a debugging tool, it logs memory accesses for
migration.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-10  2:58 [PATCH 0/2] adding tracepoints to vhost Jason Wang
2012-04-10  2:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] vhost: basic tracepoints Jason Wang
2012-05-07 21:10   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10  2:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] tools: virtio: add a top-like utility for displaying vhost satistics Jason Wang
2012-04-10 11:40 ` [PATCH 0/2] adding tracepoints to vhost Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-04-10 12:42   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-04-10 12:54     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-04-10 13:10     ` Zhi Yong Wu
2012-04-10 13:45       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-10 14:58         ` Zhi Yong Wu

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