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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 10:37:09 +0200 From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us> To: Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, "sundeep.lkml@...il.com" <sundeep.lkml@...il.com>, "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta <sbhatta@...vell.com> Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] Introduce mbox tracepoints for Octeontx2 Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 07:39:54AM CEST, sgoutham@...vell.com wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> >> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 12:48 AM >> To: sundeep.lkml@...il.com >> Cc: davem@...emloft.net; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Sunil Kovvuri Goutham >> <sgoutham@...vell.com>; Subbaraya Sundeep Bhatta >> <sbhatta@...vell.com> >> Subject: [EXT] Re: [net-next PATCH 0/2] Introduce mbox tracepoints for >> Octeontx2 >> >> External Email >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 12:48:16 +0530 sundeep.lkml@...il.com wrote: >> > From: Subbaraya Sundeep <sbhatta@...vell.com> >> > >> > This patchset adds tracepoints support for mailbox. >> > In Octeontx2, PFs and VFs need to communicate with AF for allocating >> > and freeing resources. Once all the configuration is done by AF for a >> > PF/VF then packet I/O can happen on PF/VF queues. When an interface is >> > brought up many mailbox messages are sent to AF for initializing >> > queues. Say a VF is brought up then each message is sent to PF and PF >> > forwards to AF and response also traverses from AF to PF and then VF. >> > To aid debugging, tracepoints are added at places where messages are >> > allocated, sent and message interrupts. >> > Below is the trace of one of the messages from VF to AF and AF >> > response back to VF: >> >> Could you use the devlink tracepoint? trace_devlink_hwmsg() ? > >Thanks for the suggestion. >In our case the mailbox is central to 3 different drivers and there would be a 4th one >once crypto driver is accepted. We cannot add devlink to all of them inorder to use >the devlink trace points. I guess you have 1 pci device, right? Devlink instance is created per pci device. > >Thanks, >Sunil.
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