Commit 57c2e36b authored Feb 11, 2015 by Christoph Lameter Committed by Linus Torvalds Feb 11, 2015

vmstat: Reduce time interval to stat update on idle cpu



It was noted that the vm stat shepherd runs every 2 seconds and that the
vmstat update is then scheduled 2 seconds in the future.

This yields an interval of double the time interval which is not desired.

Change the shepherd so that it does not delay the vmstat update on the
other cpu.  We stil have to use schedule_delayed_work since we are using a
delayed_work_struct but we can set the delay to 0.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 94f759d6

mm/vmstat.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1437,8 +1437,8 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w)
		if (need_update(cpu) &&
		cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, cpu_stat_off))

		schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, &per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu),
		__round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval, cpu));
		schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu,
		&per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu), 0);

		put_online_cpus();

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