Re: [PATCH] slab: use deferable timers for its periodic housekeeping

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] slab: use deferable timers for its periodic housekeeping
> 
> slab has a "once every 2 second" timer for its housekeeping.
> As the number of logical processors is growing, its more and more
> common that this 2 second timer becomes the primary wakeup source.
> 
> This patch turns this housekeeping timer into a deferable timer,
> which means that the timer does not interrupt idle, but just runs
> at the next event that wakes the cpu up.
> 
> The impact is that the timer likely runs a bit later, but during the
> delay no code is running so there's not all that much reason for
> a difference in housekeeping to occur because of this delay.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  mm/slab.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index 7451bda..ef3cd3d 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ static void __cpuinit start_cpu_timer(int cpu)
>       */
>      if (keventd_up() && reap_work->work.func == NULL) {
>          init_reap_node(cpu);
> -        INIT_DELAYED_WORK(reap_work, cache_reap);
> +        INIT_DELAYED_WORK_DEFERRABLE(reap_work, cache_reap);
>          schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, reap_work,
>                      __round_jiffies_relative(HZ, cpu));
>      }

[ The patch seems to have been whitespace damaged. ]

Applied, thanks!