20/06/2023 10:14, Jie Hai:
> On 2023/2/20 20:55, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 3:50 AM Jie Hai <haij...@huawei.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This patch supports dump of ring information by its name.
> >> An example using this command is shown below:
> >>
> >> --> /ring/info,MP_mb_pool_0
> >> {
> >> "/ring/info": {
> >> "name": "MP_mb_pool_0",
> >> "socket": 0,
> >> "flags": "0x0",
> >> "producer_type": "MP",
> >> "consumer_type": "MC",
> >> "size": 262144,
> >> "mask": "0x3ffff",
> >> "capacity": 262143,
> >> "used_count": 153197,
> >> "consumer_tail": 2259,
> >> "consumer_head": 2259,
> >> "producer_tail": 155456,
> >> "producer_head": 155456,
> >
> > What would an external user make of such an information?
> >
> > I'd like to have a better idea what your usecase is.
> > If it is for debugging, well, gdb is probably a better candidate.
> >
> >
> Hi David,
> Thanks for your question and I'm sorry for getting back to you so late.
> There was a problem with my mailbox and I lost all my mails.
>
> The ring information exported by telemetry can be used to check the ring
> status periodically during normal use. When an error occurs, the fault
> cause can be deduced based on the information.
> GDB is more suitable for locating errors only when they are sure that
> errors will occur.
Yes, when an error occurs, you can use GDB,
and you don't need all these internal values in telemetry.
