Re: Expertise required:USB bulk-throughput and memory leak detection

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 15:50 +0530, bhuvan.kumarmital@wipro.com wrote:
>  
> 

you made the same mistake here as on kernelnewbies.. you didn't post a
pointer to the source code ;)


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bhuvan Kumarmital (WT01 - Semiconductors & Consumer 
> > Electronics) 
> > To: 'kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org'
> > Subject: Expertise required:USB bulk-throughput and memory 
> > leak detection 
> > 
> >  
> >     My team is developing a device driver for a PCMCIA based 
> > USB device. We're currently trying to test the performance of 
> > our driver. However we're unable to figure out a reliable methods of:
> > 1.) detecting memory leaks caused by our driver code. 
> > 2.) Neither have we been able to find a tool which shows % 
> > utilisation of kernel memory used by our driver.(kernel 
> > memory monitoring)
> > 3.) Throughput calculation of bulk data transfer is also not 
> > precise. We still rely on measuring time on stop watch, while 
> > Transferring data.
> >  
> > About the memory monitoring, there are quite a few tools 
> > available at the application level (like free and top which 
> > are available with the operating system itself). But none for 
> > the kernel level. 
> >  
> > Please suggest other feasible ways of detecting leaks and 
> > monitoring kernel memory utilisation for kernel 2.6.15.4 on 
> > fedora core 4.
> >  
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