linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/3] MM: allow per-cpu vmstat

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Message-ID: <1494430466.29205.17.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 10 May 2017 11:34:26 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:     Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@...hat.com>,
        Linux RT Users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] MM: allow per-cpu vmstat_worker configuration

On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 15:40 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Following the reasoning on the last patch in the series,
> this patch allows configuration of the per-CPU vmstat worker:
> it allows the user to disable the per-CPU vmstat worker.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>

Is there ever a case where you would want to configure
this separately from the vmstat_threshold parameter?

What use cases are you trying to address?