Netflix / flamescope

FlameScope is a visualization tool for exploring different time ranges as Flame Graphs.
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Idle regexp eats up softirq frames #83

Open bobrik opened 5 years ago

bobrik commented 5 years ago

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.

spiermar commented 5 years ago

@brendangregg ^^

spiermar commented 2 years ago

@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 https://github.com/Netflix/flamescope/issues/143