[dpdk-dev] [v3, 0/3] common/cnxk: enable npa telemetry

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Aug 25 12:09:50 CEST 2021


11/08/2021 18:18, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan:
> From: Power, Ciara <ciara.power at intel.com>
> > From: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn at marvell.com>
> > >  telemetry: enable storing pointer value
[...]
> > I am still unsure exactly what the use case is here - why are we choosing to
> > publish the pointer values through telemetry rather than using a debug log for
> > example?
> 
> Pointer values are useful sometimes for more debugging through telemetry, hence this proposal.
> As I mentioned in v1 thread, this is architecture compliant approach rather than assuming pointer 
> value is always 64 bit, when there is need to use pointer value in current telemetry path.

Why using telemetry for debugging?
I agree with Ciara, debug log is more appropriate.
You can also use the tracing framework.




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