[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "vmstat: Reduce time interval to stat update on idle cpu" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    vmstat: Reduce time interval to stat update on idle cpu

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt13.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 3349aa40de9c09d712c3021ffd0179e84d40c113 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:28:36 -0800
Subject: vmstat: Reduce time interval to stat update on idle cpu

commit 57c2e36b6f4dd52e7e90f4c748a665b13fa228d2 upstream.

It was noted that the vm stat shepherd runs every 2 seconds and that the
vmstat update is then scheduled 2 seconds in the future.

This yields an interval of double the time interval which is not desired.

Change the shepherd so that it does not delay the vmstat update on the
other cpu.  We stil have to use schedule_delayed_work since we are using a
delayed_work_struct but we can set the delay to 0.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon at codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
[ kamal: 3.19-stable prereq for
  373ccbe mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 mm/vmstat.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index cdac773..7be790da 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1435,8 +1435,8 @@ static void vmstat_shepherd(struct work_struct *w)
 		if (need_update(cpu) &&
 			cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, cpu_stat_off))

-			schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu, &per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu),
-				__round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval, cpu));
+			schedule_delayed_work_on(cpu,
+				&per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu), 0);

 	put_online_cpus();

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