Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761326Ab2FHIA1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:00:27 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:51836 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755839Ab2FHIAZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2012 04:00:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 00:58:45 -0700 From: Anton Vorontsov To: leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com Cc: kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, penberg@kernel.org, b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, john.stultz@linaro.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] vmevent: Convert from deferred timer to deferred work Message-ID: <20120608075844.GA6362@lizard> References: <20120601122118.GA6128@lizard> <1338553446-22292-2-git-send-email-anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> <4FD170AA.10705@gmail.com> <20120608065828.GA1515@lizard> <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB98269045F7890@008-AM1MPN1-004.mgdnok.nokia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <84FF21A720B0874AA94B46D76DB98269045F7890@008-AM1MPN1-004.mgdnok.nokia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1627 Lines: 38 On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 07:05:46AM +0000, leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ext Anton Vorontsov [mailto:anton.vorontsov@linaro.org] > > Sent: 08 June, 2012 09:58 > ... > > If you're saying that we should set up a timer in the userland and constantly > > read /proc/vmstat, then we will cause CPU wake up every 100ms, which is > > not acceptable. Well, we can try to introduce deferrable timers for the > > userspace. But then it would still add a lot more overhead for our task, as this > > solution adds other two context switches to read and parse /proc/vmstat. I > > guess this is not a show-stopper though, so we can discuss this. > > > > Leonid, Pekka, what do you think about the idea? > > Seems to me not nice solution. Generating/parsing vmstat every 100ms plus wakeups it is what exactly should be avoid to have sense to API. No, iff we implement deferred timers for userland, we would not wake up every 100 ms. The only additional overhead comparing to vmevent would be: a) Two more context swtiches; b) Serialization/deserialization of /proc/vmstat. > It also will cause page trashing because user-space code could be pushed out from cache if VM decide. This can solved by moving a "watcher" to a separate (daemon) process, and mlocking it. We do this in ulmkd. Thanks, -- Anton Vorontsov Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/