From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx169.postini.com [74.125.245.169]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB4506B0037 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from /spool/local by e7.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:00:41 -0400 Received: from d01relay03.pok.ibm.com (d01relay03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.235]) by d01dlp03.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8962CC90041 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:00:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (d03av06.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.245]) by d01relay03.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r5JExYln236886 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:59:34 -0400 Received: from d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av06.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r5JF1egW006120 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:01:41 -0600 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:59:07 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: vmstat kthreads Message-ID: <20130619145906.GB5146@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20130618152302.GA10702@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0000013f58656ee7-8bb24ac4-72fa-4c0b-b888-7c056f261b6e-000000@email.amazonses.com> <20130618182616.GT5146@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0000013f5cd1c54a-31d71292-c227-4f84-925d-75407a687824-000000@email.amazonses.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Gilad Ben-Yossef Cc: Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org, ghaskins@londonstockexchange.com, niv@us.ibm.com, kravetz@us.ibm.com, Frederic Weisbecker 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 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org