2016-06-15 6:37 GMT-07:00 Ryan Moats <[email protected]>:

> "dev" <[email protected]> wrote on 06/14/2016 08:58:33 PM:
>
> > From: Daniele Di Proietto <[email protected]>
> > To: Nirapada Ghosh/San Jose/IBM@IBMUS
> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> > Date: 06/14/2016 08:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH V5] Function tracer to trace all function
> calls
> > Sent by: "dev" <[email protected]>
> >
> > Hi Nirapada,
> >
> > When optimizing for the DPDK datapath we have a very similar problem and,
> > usually, running a simple profiler like perf (
> > https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page) is enough to highlight
> > the bottlenecks in terms of CPU usage.
> >
> > Have you tried perf? Does this infrastructure provide advantages over
> > sample profiling? I'm not saying that one is better than the other, I'm
> > just curious!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Daniele
>
> Daniele-
>
> Nirapada's patch set is driven by the requirement to extract automated
> profiling under scale while using the same bytes that are to be
> deployed for operation.
>
> This pretty much precludes the use of any external profiler.
>
> Ryan
>
Ok, I understand, no objections here.

Thanks,

Daniele
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