Re: [PATCH] mm,vmscan: Use accurate values for zone_reclaimable() checks

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Because all the WQ workers are stuck somewhere, maybe in the memory
> allocation which cannot make any progress and the vmstat update work is
> queued behind them.
>
> At least this is my current understanding.

Eww. Maybe need a queue that does not do such evil things as memory
allocation?

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