Re: [PATCH 0/2] adding tracepoints to vhost

[Zhi Yong Wu]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:40:50PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > To help in vhost analyzing, the following series adding basic tracepoints to
>> > vhost. Operations of both virtqueues and vhost works were traced in current
>> > implementation, net code were untouched. A top-like satistics displaying script
>> > were introduced to help the troubleshooting.
>> >
>> > TODO:
>> > - net specific tracepoints?
>> >
>> > ---
>> >
>> > Jason Wang (2):
>> >      vhost: basic tracepoints
>> >      tools: virtio: add a top-like utility for displaying vhost satistics
>> >
>> >
>> >  drivers/vhost/trace.h   |  153 ++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  drivers/vhost/vhost.c   |   17 ++
>> >  tools/virtio/vhost_stat |  360 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> >  3 files changed, 528 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >  create mode 100644 drivers/vhost/trace.h
>> >  create mode 100755 tools/virtio/vhost_stat
>>
>> Perhaps this can replace the vhost log feature?  I'm not sure if
>> tracepoints support the right data types but it seems like vhost
>> debugging could be done using tracing with less code.
>>
>> Stefan
>
> vhost log is not a debugging tool, it logs memory accesses for
> migration.
Great, it is very appreciated if there's some docs about this

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Zhi Yong Wu
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