The Return of the Frame Pointers
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
To explain this example in more detail: The profiler periodically interrupts software execution, and for those disconnected stacks it happens to be the execution of the kernel software ("vfs*", "ext*", etc.). and we may have been flying close to the edge of hardware cache warmth, where adding a bit more instructions caused a big drop.
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