On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The statistics stuff needs to be tackled anyway as we need to offload > the sched accounting to some other cpu. The vm statisticcs in mm/vmstat.c are different from the sched accounting. > What slab queue stuff is running on timers and cannot be switched off > in such a context? slab does run a timer every 2 second to age queues. If there was activity then there can be a relatively long time in which we periodically throw out portions of the cached data. > Device specific stuff should not happen on such a CPU when there is no > device handled on it. The device may periodically check for conditions that require action. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
