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Date:   Thu, 24 Feb 2022 13:28:16 +0000
From:   Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
To:     Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] tick/sched: Ensure quiet_vmstat() is called when the
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On Thu 2022-02-24 10:14 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> If the per-CPU vmstat_update is limited to happen once per second, that
> shouldnt be a significant performance impact?

Perhaps not. Albeit, is the interrupt worth it? Then again it could indeed
be a long time before the idle task is selected and a return to idle code
were we'd check for any remaining differentials with the aforementioned
patch.

Kind regards,

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Aaron Tomlin