From: Koki Sanagi Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:46:12 +0000 (+0900) Subject: skb: Add tracepoints to freeing skb X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37-rc1~214^2~87 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=07dc22e7295f25526f110d704655ff0ea7687420;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Neil Horman Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Kaneshige Kenji Cc: Izumo Taku Cc: Kosaki Motohiro Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Scott Mcmillan Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Eric Dumazet LKML-Reference: <4C724364.50903@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- Reading git-diff-tree failed