Re: vmstat: On demand vmstat workers V5

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 12 May 2014, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> 
> V4->V5:
> - Shepherd thread on a specific cpu (HOUSEKEEPING_CPU).

That's going to fail for the NOHZ_IDLE case, e.g. for the little/big
cluster support on ARM. They need to be able to move it from the
housekeeper on the big to the housekeeper on the little cluster.

So as I said before: This wants to be on a dedicated housekeeper
workqueue. Where the thread is placed is decided by the core depending
on system configuration and state.

 	  nohz = off	    CPU0
	  nohz = idle	    core decision depending on state
	  nohz = full	    CPU0

Your solution solves only the off and full case and will fail when in
the idle case CPU0 should be sent into deep idle sleep until the user
decides to do some work which requires CPU0 to come back.

Thanks,

	tglx
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