Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: Add tracepoints to monitor skbs going in and out of a UDP socket

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote:

> - kprobes at the top of the function don't use traps and they've been
> optimized over the years to have very low overhead

To quote kprobes.txt:

	How Does a Kprobe Work?
	-----------------------

	When a kprobe is registered, Kprobes makes a copy of the probed
	instruction and replaces the first byte(s) of the probed instruction
	with a breakpoint instruction (e.g., int3 on i386 and x86_64).

Perhaps the docs need updating.

However, for my purposes, tracepoints are easier.

Anyway, as I said, I don't feel that strongly about the patch.  It was useful
for me, and I thought it might be useful for other people.

David