On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:39:31AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > With it being called from writeback that might not be true for all > workloads. One thing you can do about it is use the regular per-cpu > counter stuff, which allows you to do an approximation of the global > number (it also does all the hotplug stuff for you already). The way it's used in writeback is utterly stupid and should be fixed :) But otherwise agreed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html