Hi Gowrishankar,

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From: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <redacted>
Sent: Tuesday 3 August 2021 09:06
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Richardson, Bruce <redacted>; Power, Ciara
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Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan [off-list ref]
Subject: [v3, 0/3] common/cnxk: enable npa telemetry

This patch series enables telemetry in NPA LF of cnxk.

v3:
- fixed format specifier for uintptr_t

Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan (3):
 telemetry: enable storing pointer value
 test/telemetry: add unit tests for pointer value
 common/cnxk: add telemetry endpoints to npa

app/test/test_telemetry_data.c           | 125 +++++++++++++
app/test/test_telemetry_json.c           |  29 ++-
drivers/common/cnxk/cnxk_telemetry.h     |  26 +++
drivers/common/cnxk/cnxk_telemetry_npa.c | 227
+++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/common/cnxk/meson.build          |   4 +
drivers/common/cnxk/roc_platform.h       |   8 +
lib/telemetry/rte_telemetry.h            |  37 +++-
lib/telemetry/telemetry.c                |  21 ++-
lib/telemetry/telemetry_data.c           |  40 +++-
lib/telemetry/telemetry_data.h           |   2 +
lib/telemetry/telemetry_json.h           |  32 ++++
lib/telemetry/version.map                |   2 +
12 files changed, 539 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)  create mode 100644
drivers/common/cnxk/cnxk_telemetry.h
create mode 100644 drivers/common/cnxk/cnxk_telemetry_npa.c

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2.25.1

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?
Maybe I am missing something here.

Thanks,
Ciara