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Hana Kim 662938850b cmd/trace: exclude threads in syscall on behalf of runtime
The number of threads in syscall presented by execution tracer's
trace view includes not only the threads calling system calls on behalf
of user created goroutines, but also those running on behalf of system
goroutines.

When the number of such system goroutines was small, the graph was
useful when examining where a program was saturating the CPU.
But as more and more system goroutines are invloved the graph became
less useful for the purpose - for example, after golang.org/cl/34784,
the timer goroutines dominate in the graph with large P
because the runtime creates per-P timer goroutines.

This change excludes the threads in syscall on behalf of runtime (system
goroutines) from the visualization. Alternatively, I could visualize the
count of such threads in a separate counter but in the same graph.
Given that many other debug endpoints (e.g. /debug/pprof/goroutine) hide
the system goroutines, including them in the same graph can confuse users.

Update #22574

Change-Id: If758cd6b9ed0596fde9a471e846b93246580b9d5
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/81315
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
Run-TryBot: Hyang-Ah Hana Kim <hyangah@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
2017-12-01 21:00:50 +00:00
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doc.go
goroutines.go cmd/trace: compute pprof-style output per goroutine type 2017-11-30 19:34:32 +00:00
main.go cmd/trace: compute pprof-style output per goroutine type 2017-11-30 19:34:32 +00:00
pprof.go cmd/trace: compute pprof-style output per goroutine type 2017-11-30 19:34:32 +00:00
trace_test.go
trace.go cmd/trace: exclude threads in syscall on behalf of runtime 2017-12-01 21:00:50 +00:00