Re: [dpdk-dev] [v1, 1/3] telemetry: enable storing pointer value
From: Bruce Richardson <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-29 15:48:53
From: Bruce Richardson <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-29 15:48:53
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 08:55:35PM +0530, Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan wrote:
At present, value of pointer variable or address can only be stored in u64 type which is slightly not human readable, hence this patch is. It adds telemetry support to store pointer value, which is stringified. Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <redacted> ---
I'm a little curious as to the usefulness of having a pointer value in telemetry output? How would a telemetry user be expected to use pointer information returned? Printing pointers seems something more useful for a debugging or tracing interface than a telemetry one. Regards, /Bruce