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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: "Van De Ven, Arjan" <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	"Wu, Xia" <xia.wu@intel.com>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"mingo@elte.hu" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"peterz@infradead.org" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Zhu, Daniel" <daniel.zhu@intel.com>,
	"Wang, Yong Y" <yong.y.wang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: unnecessary timer interrupt of slab.c and bdi tasks when the system is in sleep state
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:27:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101001152715.GA5338@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26E9B811E137AB4B95200FD4C950886BA64E0ECD@orsmsx507.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 08:20:22AM -0700, Van De Ven, Arjan wrote:
> 
> > > the slab timer is already deferable... which means it won't hit while
> > the system is completely idle.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean exactly. The slab work seems to be scheduled
> > strictly
> > periodically, unless the cpu goes offline. But I can't find any nohz-
> > wise adaptation.
> > 
> 
>                 INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE(reap_work, cache_reap);
> 
> that will cause it to only run when the cpu is actually idle...


Aah ok, I missed that. Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-01 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2010-09-30 14:13 ` unnecessary timer interrupt of slab.c and bdi tasks when the system is in sleep state Christoph Lameter
2010-10-01 14:20   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-10-01 14:22     ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2010-10-01 14:36       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-10-01 15:20         ` Van De Ven, Arjan
2010-10-01 15:27           ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-09-30  4:02 Wu, Xia

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