From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753403AbbJ1Wc0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:32:26 -0400 Received: from resqmta-ch2-06v.sys.comcast.net ([69.252.207.38]:57030 "EHLO resqmta-ch2-06v.sys.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751799AbbJ1WcS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:32:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:32:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@east.gentwo.org To: Tetsuo Handa cc: htejun@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, mgorman@suse.de Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] vmstat: Create our own workqueue In-Reply-To: <201510282057.JHI87536.OMOFFFLJOHQtVS@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Message-ID: References: <20151028024114.370693277@linux.com> <20151028024131.719968999@linux.com> <20151028024350.GA10448@mtj.duckdns.org> <201510282057.JHI87536.OMOFFFLJOHQtVS@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > > > The only thing necessary here is WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. I don't see how > > > WQ_SYSFS and WQ_FREEZABLE make sense here. > > > I can still trigger silent livelock with this patchset applied. Ok so why the vmstat updater still deferred, Tejun?