Re: [PATCH v2] mm: vmscan: fix the page state calculation in too_many_isolated

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Jan 16 2015 - 12:57:54 EST


On Fri 16-01-15 16:49:22, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> Why cannot we simply update the global counters from vmstat_shepherd
> directly?

OK, I should have checked the updating paths... This would be racy, so
update from remote is not an option without additional trickery (like
retries etc.) :/
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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