netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Improve tracing at the driver/core boundary

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Date:	Sat, 09 Nov 2013 15:20:16 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Improve tracing at the driver/core boundary

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:39:12 +0100

> These patches add static tracpeoints at the driver/core boundary which
> record various skb fields likely to be useful for datapath debugging.
> On the TX side the boundary is where the core calls ndo_start_xmit, and
> on the RX side it is where any of the various exported receive functions
> is called.
> 
> The set of skb fields is mostly based on what I thought would be
> interesting for sfc, and may need to be augmented to be more general.

FWIW I think these changes are fine and a good idea, thanks for following
up on this Ben.
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