On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Max Krasnyansky wrote: > The updates are done via the regular priority workqueue. Yup so things could be fixed at that level with setting an additional workqueue flag? > I'm playing with isolation as well (has been more or less a background thing > for the last 6+ years). Our threads that run on the isolated cores are SCHED_FIFO > and therefor low prio workqueue stuff, like vmstat, doesn't get in the way. > I do have a few patches for the workqueues to make things better for isolation. Would you share those with us please? -- 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>