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SubjectRE: [PATCH 2/5] vmevent: Convert from deferred timer to deferred work
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Anton Vorontsov [mailto:anton.vorontsov@linaro.org]
> Sent: 08 June, 2012 09:58
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> If you're saying that we should set up a timer in the userland and constantly
> read /proc/vmstat, then we will cause CPU wake up every 100ms, which is
> not acceptable. Well, we can try to introduce deferrable timers for the
> userspace. But then it would still add a lot more overhead for our task, as this
> solution adds other two context switches to read and parse /proc/vmstat. I
> guess this is not a show-stopper though, so we can discuss this.
>
> Leonid, Pekka, what do you think about the idea?

Seems to me not nice solution. Generating/parsing vmstat every 100ms plus wakeups it is what exactly should be avoid to have sense to API.
It also will cause page trashing because user-space code could be pushed out from cache if VM decide.

>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Anton Vorontsov
> Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
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