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authorChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>2007-05-09 13:35:13 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-09 23:30:56 +0400
commit77461ab33229d48614402decfb1b2eaa6d446861 (patch)
treed2675ff079e887645ed25ae5f793aa907d53c66a
parentd1187ed21026fd512b87851d0ca26d9ae16f9059 (diff)
downloadlinux-77461ab33229d48614402decfb1b2eaa6d446861.tar.xz
Make vm statistics update interval configurable
Make it configurable. Code in mm makes the vm statistics intervals independent from the cache reaper use that opportunity to make it configurable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c12
-rw-r--r--mm/vmstat.c4
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index f0664bd5011c..4073353abd4f 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ extern int sysctl_drop_caches;
extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction;
extern int compat_log;
extern int maps_protect;
+extern int sysctl_stat_interval;
/* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */
static int maxolduid = 65535;
@@ -857,6 +858,17 @@ static ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.extra2 = &one_hundred,
},
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
+ .procname = "stat_interval",
+ .data = &sysctl_stat_interval,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_stat_interval),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_jiffies,
+ .strategy = &sysctl_jiffies,
+ },
+#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_32) || \
(defined(CONFIG_SUPERH) && defined(CONFIG_VSYSCALL))
{
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 9d824643a22f..006eb7621869 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -641,11 +641,13 @@ const struct seq_operations vmstat_op = {
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct delayed_work, vmstat_work);
+int sysctl_stat_interval __read_mostly = HZ;
static void vmstat_update(struct work_struct *w)
{
refresh_cpu_vm_stats(smp_processor_id());
- schedule_delayed_work(&__get_cpu_var(vmstat_work), HZ);
+ schedule_delayed_work(&__get_cpu_var(vmstat_work),
+ sysctl_stat_interval);
}
static void __devinit start_cpu_timer(int cpu)