Re: excessive kworker activity when idle. (was Re: vma corruption in today's -git)

Linus Torvalds
2011-03-31T16:22:30Z

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Regardless, I'll put my money where my mouth is, and try to remove the
> crazy re-flush thing.

Yeah, that doesn't work. The tty does actually lock up when it fills
up. So clearly we actually depended on that reflushing happening.

That said, I do still think it's the right thing to do to remove that
line, it just means that I need to figure out where the missing flush
is.

Linus