RE: [PATCH 2/5] vmevent: Convert from deferred timer to deferredwork

[leonid.moiseichuk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Anton Vorontsov [mailto:anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 June, 2012 15:14
> To: Moiseichuk Leonid (Nokia-MP/Espoo)
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> Hm. I would expect that avg value for meminfo will be much worse than
> vmstat (meminfo grabs some locks).
> 
> OK, if we consider 100ms interval, then this would be like 0.1% overhead?
> Not great, but still better than memcg:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/21/487

That is difficult to win over memcg :)
But in comparison to one syscall like read() for small structure for particular device the generation of meminfo is about 1000x times more expensive.

> So, I guess the right approach would be to find ways to not depend on
> frequent vm_stat updates (and thus reads).

Agree.

> userland deferred timers (and infrequent reads from vmstat) + "userland vm
> pressure notifications" looks promising for the userland solution.
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