On Fri 16-01-15 16:49:22, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > Why cannot we simply update the global counters from vmstat_shepherd > directly? OK, I should have checked the updating paths... This would be racy, so update from remote is not an option without additional trickery (like retries etc.) :/ -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>