From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx120.postini.com [74.125.245.120]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F14846B0033 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:57:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-la0-f48.google.com with SMTP id lx15so4620094lab.21 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:57:46 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20130618152302.GA10702@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0000013f58656ee7-8bb24ac4-72fa-4c0b-b888-7c056f261b6e-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130618182616.GT5146@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0000013f5cd1c54a-31d71292-c227-4f84-925d-75407a687824-000000@email.amazonses.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:57:44 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: vmstat kthreads From: Gilad Ben-Yossef Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-mm@kvack.org, ghaskins@londonstockexchange.com, niv@us.ibm.com, kravetz@us.ibm.com, Frederic Weisbecker On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Paul E. McKenney wrote: >> >>> > Gilad Ben-Yossef has been posting patches that address this issue in Feb >>> > 2012. Ccing him. Can we see your latest work, Gilead? >>> >>> Is it this one? >>> >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/3/269 >> >> Yes that is it. Maybe the scheme there could be generalized so that other >> subsystems can also use this to disable their threads if nothing is going >> on? Or integrate the monitoring into the notick logic somehow? >> > > I respinned the original patch based on feedback from Christoph for > 3.2 and even did some light testing then, but got distracted and never > posted the result. > > I've just ported them over to 3.10 and they merge (with a small fix > due to deferred workqueue API changes) and build. I did not try to run > this version though. > I'll post them as replies to this message. ... or rather, I'll send them later this evening when I'm not behind a firewall that is blocking SMTP connections... :-) Gilad > > I'd be happy to rescue them from the "TODO" pile... :-) > > -- > Gilad Ben-Yossef > Chief Coffee Drinker > gilad@benyossef.com > Israel Cell: +972-52-8260388 > US Cell: +1-973-8260388 > http://benyossef.com > > "If you take a class in large-scale robotics, can you end up in a > situation where the homework eats your dog?" > -- Jean-Baptiste Queru -- Gilad Ben-Yossef Chief Coffee Drinker gilad@benyossef.com Israel Cell: +972-52-8260388 US Cell: +1-973-8260388 http://benyossef.com "If you take a class in large-scale robotics, can you end up in a situation where the homework eats your dog?" -- Jean-Baptiste Queru -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org