From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Michael Wolf <mjwolf@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] kstaled: minimalistic implementation.
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:26:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317205574.20318.1.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANN689Gtv2B1j6Z5wTk1ysne+XVV8VfU+9jepY1RV4r=B7V_Zw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 01:01 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 17:49 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> >> +static int kstaled(void *dummy)
> >> +{
> >> + while (1) {
> >
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + BUG();
> >> + return 0; /* NOT REACHED */
> >> +}
> >
> > So if you build with this junk (as I presume distro's will), there is no
> > way to disable it?
>
> There will be a thread, and it'll block in wait_event_interruptible()
> until a positive value is written into
> /sys/kernel/mm/kstaled/scan_seconds
And here I though people wanted less pointless kernel threads..
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-28 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-28 0:48 [PATCH 0/9] V2: idle page tracking / working set estimation Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 0:48 ` [PATCH 1/9] page_referenced: replace vm_flags parameter with struct page_referenced_info Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 6:28 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28 0:49 ` [PATCH 2/9] kstaled: documentation and config option Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 6:53 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28 23:48 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-29 5:40 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28 0:49 ` [PATCH 3/9] kstaled: page_referenced_kstaled() and supporting infrastructure Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 7:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-29 0:09 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 0:49 ` [PATCH 4/9] kstaled: minimalistic implementation Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 7:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-09-28 8:01 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 10:26 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-09-28 8:00 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-02-20 9:17 ` Zhu Yanhai
2011-09-28 0:49 ` [PATCH 5/9] kstaled: skip non-RAM regions Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 8:03 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28 0:49 ` [PATCH 6/9] kstaled: rate limit pages scanned per second Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 8:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28 8:19 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 8:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-10-14 1:25 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-10-14 4:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28 0:49 ` [PATCH 7/9] kstaled: add histogram sampling functionality Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 8:22 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-09-28 0:49 ` [PATCH 8/9] kstaled: add incrementally updating stale page count Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-28 0:49 ` [PATCH 9/9] kstaled: export PG_stale in /proc/kpageflags Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-29 16:43 ` [PATCH 0/9] V2: idle page tracking / working set estimation Eric B Munson
2011-09-29 20:25 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-29 21:18 ` Eric B Munson
2011-09-30 18:19 ` Eric B Munson
2011-09-30 21:16 ` Michel Lespinasse
2011-09-30 21:40 ` Eric B Munson
2011-10-03 15:06 ` Eric B Munson
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