Hi Stephen, 

The commit message may be misleading, the logging interface doesn't change 
here. Note also that I reuse existing trace point framework for some of the 
error logging when relevant (see previous commit). 
Here the scope for that buffer is more limited, not a new logging method really 
(the commit message is misleading). 
The queue_ops_dump() already provides api to dump device specific information 
related to queue into file (logging in real time is not an option) based on 
information already in PMD memory. 
This new buffer is purely there to add storage for the string out of 
rte_bbdev_ops_param_string() for failed operation on that queue, so that extend 
that capture as this info is not stored by PMD. 
The name of the buffer could be renamed probably, or I could store copy of the 
actual operation instead of the string in case that makes a difference for you. 

I guess it would possible to move this to trace point but I thought it would be 
quite convoluted. That information would fits nicely in the queue dump capture, 
and this would require adding trace point for each operation type (I don't 
believe it can manage arbitrary string) and would be a bit of an unconventional 
use of trace point.

Any thought?

Thanks
Nic


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2025 3:24 PM
> To: Chautru, Nicolas <nicolas.chau...@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; maxime.coque...@redhat.com;
> hemant.agra...@nxp.com; Vargas, Hernan <hernan.var...@intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] baseband/acc: add internal logging
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:55:19 -0800
> Nicolas Chautru <nicolas.chau...@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Adds internal buffer for more flexible logging.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Chautru <nicolas.chau...@intel.com>
> 
> Inventing another device specific error log seems like a short sighted
> concept.
> Why doesn't existing DPDK logging work well enough?

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