Re: [PATCH 1/2] nvme: add tracepoint for nvme_setup_cmd

From: Johannes Thumshirn
Date: Tue Jan 16 2018 - 09:19:55 EST


On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:27:33PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> In general I'd rather have the tracepoints when actually submitting the
> request; with this tracepoint we might be getting a trace which doesn't
> really indicate if the command was submitted at all.

yes but if we really want to be 100% certain we need to take the tracepoints
in either in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() and trace the return value of the respective
->queue_rq() or in the PCI/FC/RDMA drivers.

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