netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: davinci_cpdma: remove excessive dump of register values to kernel log

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2016 01:06:55 +0300
From:	Ivan Khoronzhuk <ivan.khoronzhuk@...aro.org>
To:	Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de
Cc:	mugunthanvnm@...com, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: davinci_cpdma: remove excessive dump of register
 values to kernel log



On 26.07.16 17:26, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
> + CC: Ivan
>
> On 07/26/2016 05:09 PM, Grygorii Strashko wrote:
>> On 07/26/2016 03:57 AM, David Miller wrote:
>>> From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
>>> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:54:45 +0200
>>>
>>>> Such a big dump of register values is hardly useful on a production
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>>> Another downside of the now removed functions is that calling
>>>> emac_dump_regs resulted in at least 87 calls to dev_info while holding a
>>>> spinlock and having irqs off which is a big source of latency.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
>>>
>>> Applied.
>>>
>>
>> :( To be honest I was really enjoyed using cpdma_ctlr_dump()
>> for debug purposed during the past few weeks in cpsw where I've added
>> calls to this func manually. And I even thinking about adding debug_fs
>> entry for the same :(
>>
>> Pretty fast merge :(
At least, partly, for channel stats, for cpsw, I can use ethtool.
But ctrl_dump()... the function would be better to leave, redundant calls can be
removed from davinci_emac.

>>
>>
>
>

-- 
Regards,
Ivan Khoronzhuk