Re: vmstat: On demand vmstat workers V8

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Tue Aug 05 2014 - 10:51:53 EST


On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Sasha Levin wrote:

> On 07/25/2014 10:22 PM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On 07/10/2014 10:04 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >> > This patch creates a vmstat shepherd worker that monitors the
> >> > per cpu differentials on all processors. If there are differentials
> >> > on a processor then a vmstat worker local to the processors
> >> > with the differentials is created. That worker will then start
> >> > folding the diffs in regular intervals. Should the worker
> >> > find that there is no work to be done then it will make the shepherd
> >> > worker monitor the differentials again.
> > Hi Christoph, all,
> >
> > This patch doesn't interact well with my fuzzing setup. I'm seeing
> > the following:
>
> I think we got sidetracked here a bit, I've noticed that this issue
> is still happening in -next and discussions here died out.

Ok I saw in another thread that this issue has gone away. Is there an
easy way to reproduce this on my system?

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