Re: [patch 1/5] oom: cleanup android low memory killer

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > There was an interest in a low mem userspace notifier that applications can
> > poll() on at configurable low mem levels to react accordingly.  This would
> > probably address the problem that the Android team is trying to fix.
> 
> This would also make it easier for virtual machines to be
> ballooned down to size when the host experiences memory
> pressure.
> 
> The low memory notification could also be useful for JVMs,
> databases that do (some of) their own caching and any garbage
> collected program in general.
> 

I agree, and I'd suggest that it be implemented as a cgroup so that 
individual sets of tasks can be responsible for their own lowmem 
notifiers.

KOSAKI, you were pushing the /dev/mem_notify patchset last year from 
Marcelo.  Do you have any plans of recreating that in a cgroup or have you 
dropped it?
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