On 27 March 2015 at 01:48, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Shouldn't this be viewed as a shortcoming of the core timer code? Yeah, it is. Some (not so pretty) solutions were tried earlier to fix that, but they are rejected for obviously reasons [1]. > vmstat_shepherd() is merely rescheduling itself with > schedule_delayed_work(). That's a dead bog simple operation and if > it's producing suboptimal behaviour then we shouldn't be fixing it with > elaborate workarounds in the caller? I understand that, and that's why I sent it as an RFC to get the discussion started. Does anyone else have got another (acceptable) idea to get this resolved ? -- viresh [1] http://lists.linaro.org/pipermail/linaro-kernel/2013-November/008866.html -- 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>