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authorKoki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-08-23 18:46:12 +0900
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-09-07 17:51:53 +0200
commit07dc22e7295f25526f110d704655ff0ea7687420 (patch)
tree026b83a634d949d80cff48a91ecc38419bba8821 /net/core/skbuff.c
parentnetdev: Add tracepoints to netdev layer (diff)
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skb: Add tracepoints to freeing skb
This patch adds tracepoint to consume_skb and add trace_kfree_skb before __kfree_skb in skb_free_datagram_locked and net_tx_action. Combinating with tracepoint on dev_hard_start_xmit, we can check how long it takes to free transmitted packets. And using it, we can calculate how many packets driver had at that time. It is useful when a drop of transmitted packet is a problem. sshd-6828 [000] 112689.258154: consume_skb: skbaddr=f2d99bb8 Signed-off-by: Koki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Kaneshige Kenji <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Izumo Taku <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Scott Mcmillan <scott.a.mcmillan@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4C724364.50903@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/skbuff.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/skbuff.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index 3a2513f0d0c3..12e61e351d0e 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ void consume_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
smp_rmb();
else if (likely(!atomic_dec_and_test(&skb->users)))
return;
+ trace_consume_skb(skb);
__kfree_skb(skb);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(consume_skb);