[RFC]: add tracepoint to net_rx_action to note polling operations
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: 2009-04-20 11:27:40
From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: 2009-04-20 11:27:40
Hey all- I was thinking about adding an additional tracepoint to net_rx_action, right before the call to dev->poll(). One of the things thats missing from my dropwatch utility is the ability to detect hardware drops, and I was thinking I could implement that by noting when devices were being polled by napi, and at that time querying the devices stats. I know however, that adding tracepoints isn't always desireable, so I thought I would solicit opinions here to see if anyone else would find such a tracepoint usefull, or in the event they had strong objectsions to such a point. Thanks! Neil