On Sat, 17 Jan 2015, Vinayak Menon wrote: > which had not updated the vmstat_diff. This CPU was in idle for around 30 > secs. When I looked at the tvec base for this CPU, the timer associated with > vmstat_update had its expiry time less than current jiffies. This timer had > its deferrable flag set, and was tied to the next non-deferrable timer in the We can remove the deferrrable flag now since the vmstat threads are only activated as necessary with the recent changes. Looks like this could fix your issue? -- 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>