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Idle regexp eats up softirq frames #83

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bobrik opened this issue Jul 31, 2019 · 2 comments
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Idle regexp eats up softirq frames #83

bobrik opened this issue Jul 31, 2019 · 2 comments
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bobrik commented Jul 31, 2019

We borrowed idle_regexp for our internal system and it looks like the regexp hides some legitimate stacks in softirq context.

Current filter produces the following flamegraph:

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If I make idle_regexp match nothing, I can see much more interesting stuff:

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The trace comes from on Intel Skylake.

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spiermar commented Aug 6, 2019

@brendangregg ^^

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@brendangregg can you take a look into the idle regex used to filter idle stacks? There's a clear example of the stack filtering differences in #143

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