From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65096B0036 for ; Wed, 14 May 2014 19:15:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ee0-f54.google.com with SMTP id b57so135410eek.27 for ; Wed, 14 May 2014 16:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de. [2001:470:1f0b:db:abcd:42:0:1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i49si2708279eem.132.2014.05.14.16.15.14 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 14 May 2014 16:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 01:15:17 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: vmstat: On demand vmstat workers V5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , Gilad Ben-Yossef , Tejun Heo , John Stultz , Mike Frysinger , Minchan Kim , Hakan Akkan , Max Krasnyansky , Frederic Weisbecker , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, hughd@google.com, viresh.kumar@linaro.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org On Wed, 14 May 2014, Christoph Lameter wrote: > - Shepherd thread as a general worker thread. This means > that the general mechanism to control worker thread > cpu proposed by Frederic Weisbecker is necessary to > restrict the shepherd thread to the cpus not used > for low latency tasks. Hopefully that is ready to be > merged soon. No need anymore to have a specific > cpu be the housekeeper cpu. Amen to that. Acked-by me for the general approach. I don't want to give any unqualified opinion on the mm/vmstat parts of this patch. Thanks, tglx -- 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