netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] Dump SW SQ context as part of tx reporter

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Message-ID: <bc08fc27-820d-f73b-3fde-4c8c697a1c2a@mellanox.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:26:49 +0000
From:   Aya Levin <ayal@...lanox.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eran Ben Elisha <eranbe@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next RFC] Dump SW SQ context as part of tx reporter



On 4/30/2019 3:54 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 17:17:39 +0300, Aya Levin wrote:
>> In order to offline translate the raw memory into a human readable
>> format, the user can use some out-of-kernel scripts which receives as an
>> input the following:
>> - Object raw memory
>> - Driver object compiled with debug info (can be taken/generated at any time from the machine)
>> - Object name
> 
> Nice!  IMHO this is more clean, precise and scalable than the fmsg stuff
> that we have now.
> 
> Would you mind taking the string identifiers down a little bit more?
> "memory" could just have a first-class netlink attribute, it doesn't
> have to be this fake JSON string pair..
> 
Thanks!
I am still using fmsg which is the API to construct JSON like output. 
The fmg object contains the raw data.
I like your idea to remove the memory tag and just leave the array of 
byte arrays. The SW dump devlink output without scripting is meaningless.