Re: [patch 3/3] vmstat: Create our own workqueue

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Mon Nov 02 2015 - 13:10:16 EST


On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Tetsuo Handa wrote:

> I'm still unclear. I think that the result of this patchset is
>
> The counters are never updated even after stat_interval
> if some workqueue item is doing a __GFP_WAIT memory allocation.
>
> but the patch description sounds as if
>
> The counters will be updated even if some workqueue item is
> doing a __GFP_WAIT memory allocation.
>
> which denies the actual result I tested with this patchset applied.

Well true that is dependend on the correct workqueue operation. I though
that was fixed by Tejun?

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