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I can capture >> Kernel and UST events. >> >> My purpose is to investigate why a periodic task, running on an >> isolated core, has occasional blips i.e. it's period (duration) >> extends. >> >> I have inserted tracepoints to mark normal and extended durations. In >> Trace Compass the blip tracepoint is preceded by a brown state that is >> 'SOFT IRQ 1'. This extends down all cores. It lasts 105us and is >> likely to be the reason for the blip. >> >> Please could someone explain to me what may be happening here and how >> can I find out the reason for this SOFT IRQ? > > See include/linux/interrupt.h from the Linux kernel: > > enum > { >         HI_SOFTIRQ=0, >         TIMER_SOFTIRQ, >         NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, >         NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, >         BLOCK_SOFTIRQ, >         IRQ_POLL_SOFTIRQ, >         TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, >         SCHED_SOFTIRQ, >         HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, >         RCU_SOFTIRQ,    /* Preferable RCU should always be the last > softirq */ > >         NR_SOFTIRQS > }; > > So SOFT IRQ 1 would be TIMER_SOFTIRQ. > > Note that we have a TODO in lttng-modules: > > lttng_dump_softirq_vec() > > Implementing this by dumping this softirq table mapping numbers to names > would be a welcome contribution. I just implemented it (only compile-tested), see: https://review.lttng.org/c/lttng-modules/+/14611 Implement softirq number, name statedump This dumps the list of softirqs into the trace with their associated names. We'd have to check whether tweaks are needed for older kernels before I can merge this. Thanks, Mathieu > > Thanks, > > Mathieu > >> >> Best regards >> David > > -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. https://www.efficios.com