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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TRACE_EVENT() declarations belong to include/trace/
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:24:56 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100412232456.GI11751@kryten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100412220451.GG8285@nowhere>


Hi Frederic,

> If this is to trace all irqs, then it seems to me the wrong way.
> We already have generic irq_handler_entry and irq_handler_exit trace events.
> 
> May be those in powerpc are here to get the spurious irqs by computing
> a diff between generic and arch irq events? In which case
> it would be better to get dedicated spurious irq tracepoints.

The number of spurious irqs are not interesting - we track them in
/proc/interrupts. The duration of the disturbances are, and they were big
enough for people to see them in certain HPC loops.

Anton

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-12 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-12 21:45 TRACE_EVENT() declarations belong to include/trace/ Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-04-12 22:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-04-12 22:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-12 22:17   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-04-12 23:17     ` Anton Blanchard
2010-04-13  0:27       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-04-12 23:24   ` Anton Blanchard [this message]

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