Re: [PATCH 6/9] kstaled: rate limit pages scanned per second.

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:49:04 -0700
Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Scan some number of pages from each node every second, instead of trying to
> scan the entime memory at once and being idle for the rest of the configured
> interval.
> 
> In addition to spreading the CPU usage over the entire scanning interval,
> this also reduces the jitter between two consecutive scans of the same page.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx>

Does this scan thread need to be signle thread ?

Thanks,
-Kame


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