Re: fast path cycle muncher (vmstat: make vmstat_updater deferrable again and shut down on idle)

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Sat Jan 23 2016 - 19:33:17 EST


On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> While you're fixing that commit up, can you perhaps find a better home
> for quiet_vmstat()? It not only munches cycles when switching cross
> -core mightily, for -rt it injects a sleeping lock into the idle task.

Not sure what you are talking about. No sleeping locks are used in
quiet_vmstat() nor does it switch across cores. It would be broken if it
would do so.