On 27 March 2015 at 01:48, Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/