Re: [patch 2/2] MM: allow per-cpu vmstat_threshold and vmstat_worker configuration

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 2 May 2017, Luiz Capitulino wrote:

> Ah, OK. Got this now. I'll give this patch a try. But I think we want
> to hear from Christoph (who worked on reducing the vmstat interruptions
> in the past).

A bit confused by this one. The vmstat worker is already disabled if there
are no updates. Also the patches by Chris Metcalf on data plane mode add a
prctl to quiet the vmstat workers.

Why do we need more than this?