linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: move pcp and lru-pcp drainging into vmstat

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Message-Id: <201702082144.BCE17682.SMOFOHJOVQLtFF@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2017 21:44:36 +0900
From:   Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:     mgorman@...e.de, mhocko@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, vbabka@...e.cz, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: move pcp and lru-pcp drainging into vmstat_wq

Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > It also feels like vmstat is now a misleading name for something that
> > > handles vmstat, lru drains and per-cpu drains but that's cosmetic.
> > 
> > yeah a better name sounds like a good thing. mm_nonblock_wq?
> > 
> 
> it's not always non-blocking. Maybe mm_percpu_wq to describev a workqueue
> that handles a variety of MM-related per-cpu updates?
> 

Why not make it global like ones created by workqueue_init_early() ?