Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2014 11:28:18 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vmstat: on demand updates from differentials V7 |
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On Tue, 3 Jun 2014, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> So after the cpumask_var_t conversion I have no other concern except > perhaps that the scan may bring some overhead on workloads that don't > care about isolation. You might want to make it optional. But I let you > check that.
Testing so far indicates that typical loads have spurts of kernel usage which need vmstat but otherwise there are large segments of processing that do not need the vmstat worker. It seems that this change is generally helpful.
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