linux-kernel - RE: vmstat: use our own timer events

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Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 11:29:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: RE: vmstat: use our own timer events

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote:

> Can this use 'deferrable timer' along with round_jiffies. That
> will eliminate the issue of too frequent interrupt when CPU is idle.

Yes I asked Arjan about this.
> >+	struct delayed_work *vmstat_work = &per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu);
> >+
> >+	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(vmstat_work, vmstat_update);
> 
> This change alone should help.
> 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE(vmstat_work, vmstat_update);
> 

Hmmm.. I need to check out what this does exactly.

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