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Re: [PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing

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On 03/25/2016 01:32 AM, Baolin Wang wrote:
> On 24 March 2016 at 22:08, Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> wrote:
>> On 03/24/2016 05:54 AM, Baolin Wang wrote:
>>>
>>> This patch provides some tracepoints for the lifecycle of a request from
>>> fetching to completion to help with performance analysis of MMC subsystem.
>>
>>
>> Most of these already exist as block layer trace points, why do we need mmc
>> specific ones?
>
> Currently the MMC core does not have any tracepoints for use with
> ftrace. These are very useful as they provide a very low overhead
> runtime controllable way of getting diagnostics from the system which
> is capable of recording a great deal of information without impacting
> system performance. We have tracepoints in the block layer so we can
> do some trace of MMC but none in MMC itself so adding some where
> appropriate would help people follow the activity of subsystem.

But more than half of the trace points you added, those are DIRECTLY 
related to the block event. So what you are saying makes little sense. I 
see you resend it with the same trace points, I'll comment on that mail.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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[PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> - 2016-03-24 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-03-24 15:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> - 2016-03-25 08:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2016-03-25 15:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> - 2016-03-28 07:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-03-24 16:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-03-24 16:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] mmc: Provide tracepoints for request processing Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> - 2016-03-25 09:00 +0100

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