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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: add sysctl to pick vmstat monitor cpu
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 13:58:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0000013f61e10d68-d5ca253d-d14f-4547-8291-aafa6b596ed7-000000@email.amazonses.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371672168-9869-2-git-send-email-gilad@benyossef.com>

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> Add a sysctl knob to enable admin to hand pick the scapegoat cpu
> that will perform the extra work of preiodically checking for
> new VM activity on CPUs that have switched off their vmstat_update
> work item schedling.

Not necessary if we use the dynticks sacrificial processor
(boot cpu). Seems to be also used for RCU.

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-20 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 15:23 vmstat kthreads Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-18 17:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-06-18 18:26   ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-19 14:23     ` Christoph Lameter
2013-06-19 14:50       ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-06-19 14:57         ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-06-20  5:06           ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-06-19 14:59         ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-19 20:18           ` Christoph Lameter
2013-06-19 20:02         ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: make vmstat_update periodic run conditional Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-06-20 14:05           ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-07 18:16             ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-08  6:28               ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-08-08  6:54             ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-08-08 14:59               ` Christoph Lameter
2013-08-09 18:56                 ` Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-08-28 19:28                   ` Christoph Lameter
2013-06-19 20:02         ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: add sysctl to pick vmstat monitor cpu Gilad Ben-Yossef
2013-06-20 13:58           ` Christoph Lameter [this message]

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