Re: vmstat kthreads

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 05:50:46PM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> >> > Gilad Ben-Yossef has been posting patches that address this issue in Feb
> >> > 2012. Ccing him. Can we see your latest work, Gilead?
> >>
> >> Is it this one?
> >>
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/3/269
> >
> > Yes that is it. Maybe the scheme there could be generalized so that other
> > subsystems can also use this to disable their threads if nothing is going
> > on? Or integrate the monitoring into the notick logic somehow?
> >
> 
> I respinned the original patch based on feedback from Christoph for
> 3.2 and even did some light testing then, but got distracted and never
> posted the result.
> 
> I've just ported them over to 3.10 and they merge (with a small fix
> due to deferred workqueue API changes) and build. I did not try to run
> this version though.
> I'll post them as replies to this message.
> 
> I'd be happy to rescue them from the "TODO" pile... :-)

Please!  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul

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