Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix inconsistency between IP and callchainsampling

From: Anton Blanchard
Date: Thu Jan 21 2010 - 21:07:21 EST



Hi Frederic,

> Concerning interrupts that happen in idle, I think we should filter
> these if exclude_idle = 1. That looks more something a user may
> want: if we don't want to profile idle, neither do we want to encumber with
> interrupts that occur inside. On the opposite, if someone wants a finegrained
> profile, let's get idle and its interrupts.
>
> What do you guys think about that?

Yeah that sounds reasonable to me. Thanks for looking into it!

Anton
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