On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > Add a sysctl knob to enable admin to hand pick the scapegoat cpu > that will perform the extra work of preiodically checking for > new VM activity on CPUs that have switched off their vmstat_update > work item schedling. Not necessary if we use the dynticks sacrificial processor (boot cpu). Seems to be also used for RCU. -- 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>