Re: [PATCH] new irq tracer

[Kyle McMartin]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:46:20PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Much of the other data is already available, /proc/interrupts will
> happily tell you the source of your interrupt storm. The irq-off latency
> tracer will tell you if stuff takes too much time, the graph tracer can
> tell you what is taking how much time.
> 

How so? It will only tell you which irq line you need to be looking at,
not which handlers device is spewing the IRQs...

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but that's what I've used a
similar instrument for.

regards, Kyle
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