On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 10:57 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > The per-CPU vmstat worker is a problem on -RT workloads (because > ideally the CPU is entirely reserved for the -RT app, without > interference). The worker transfers accumulated per-CPU > vmstat counters to global counters. > > To resolve the problem, create two tunables: > > * Userspace configurable per-CPU vmstat threshold: by default the > VM code calculates the size of the per-CPU vmstat arrays. This > tunable allows userspace to configure the values. > > * Userspace configurable per-CPU vmstat worker: allow disabling > the per-CPU vmstat worker. > > The patch below contains documentation which describes the tunables > in more detail. The documentation says what the tunables do, but not how you should set them in different scenarios, or why. That could be a little more helpful to sysadmins. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
