vmstat: update comment regarding stat_threshold
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 772b39b..8cb0f0a 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -321,9 +321,12 @@
/*
* The fetching of the stat_threshold is racy. We may apply
* a counter threshold to the wrong the cpu if we get
- * rescheduled while executing here. However, the following
- * will apply the threshold again and therefore bring the
- * counter under the threshold.
+ * rescheduled while executing here. However, the next
+ * counter update will apply the threshold again and
+ * therefore bring the counter under the threshold again.
+ *
+ * Most of the time the thresholds are the same anyways
+ * for all cpus in a zone.
*/
t = this_cpu_read(pcp->stat_threshold);