Re: vmstat: On demand vmstat workers V5

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed May 14 2014 - 19:15:21 EST


On Wed, 14 May 2014, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> - Shepherd thread as a general worker thread. This means
> that the general mechanism to control worker thread
> cpu proposed by Frederic Weisbecker is necessary to
> restrict the shepherd thread to the cpus not used
> for low latency tasks. Hopefully that is ready to be
> merged soon. No need anymore to have a specific
> cpu be the housekeeper cpu.

Amen to that.

Acked-by me for the general approach.

I don't want to give any unqualified opinion on the mm/vmstat parts of
this patch.

Thanks,

tglx


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/