How to debug ethernet driver ?

Hello, I am writing ethernet network driver. I would like to ask if there are any steps which can help when debugging ethernet driver, or is it that the first test should already involve transmit/recieve packets to/from ip stack ? Any tips for debugging and testing a new ethernet driver will be

Re: doubt on schedule_work() - work task getting scheduled lately

Did you tried ftrace? https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt I've been using this to measure some latencies. The problem here is visualizing the output. If you need someting more elaborated than simple prints with timestamps and delta calculations, then you should try something

Re: doubt on schedule_work() - work task getting scheduled lately

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Daniel. wrote: > Nice tool @Ricardo! > > 2016-07-29 10:48 GMT-03:00 Ricardo Ribalda Delgado > : >> you can use http://lttng.org/ for analyzing this Thanks Ricardo, I will use this. >> >> Regards! >> >> On Fri,

Re: Stupid question regarding bogomips and udelay()

Hello, that's an interesting question! I'm currently reading the same book, but you've read more than me so far :) On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 08:36:07AM +0300, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: > * bogomips value (see `cat /proc/cpuinfo`) is determined only once > during system boot As far as I know, I

Stupid question regarding bogomips and udelay()

Hello Currently I'm reading Linux Kernel Development, 3rd Edition by Robert Love. Chapter 11 describes timers and udelay() procedure in particular. According to the book (if I didn't get anything wrong): * bogomips value (see `cat /proc/cpuinfo`) is determined only once during system boot *