Commit 5a165657 authored by Neil Horman's avatar Neil Horman Committed by David S. Miller

net: skb ftracer - Add config option to enable new ftracer (v3)

skb allocation / consumption corelator - Add config option

This patch adds a Kconfig option to enable the addtition of the skb source
tracer.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

 Kconfig |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent e9b3cc1b
......@@ -234,6 +234,16 @@ config BOOT_TRACER
You must pass in initcall_debug and ftrace=initcall to the kernel
command line to enable this on bootup.
config SKB_SOURCES_TRACER
bool "Trace skb source information"
select GENERIC_TRACER
help
This tracer helps developers/sysadmins correlate skb allocation and
consumption. The idea being that some processes will primarily consume data
that was allocated on certain numa nodes. By being able to visualize which
nodes the data was allocated on, a sysadmin or developer can optimize the
scheduling of those processes to cut back on cross node chatter.
config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
bool
select GENERIC_TRACER
......
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