Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:04:08 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix inconsistency between IP and callchain
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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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