Re: [PATCH 0/3 staging-next] android: Lowmemmorykiller task tree

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Feb 10 2017 - 05:27:48 EST


[I have only now see this cover - it answers some of the questions I've
had to specific patches. It would be really great if you could use git
send-email to post patch series - it just does the right thing(tm)]

On Thu 09-02-17 14:21:40, peter enderborg wrote:
> Lowmemorykiller efficiency problem and a solution.
>
> Lowmemorykiller in android has a severe efficiency problem. The basic
> problem is that the registered shrinker gets called very often without
> anything actually happening.

Which is an inherent problem because lkml doesn't belong to shrinkers
infrastructure.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs