Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mm: per-process reclaim

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Jun 13 2016 - 13:06:46 EST


On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 16:50 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> These day, there are many platforms available in the embedded market
> and sometime, they has more hints about workingset than kernel so
> they want to involve memory management more heavily like android's
> lowmemory killer and ashmem or user-daemon with lowmemory notifier.
>
> This patch adds add new method for userspace to manage memory
> efficiently via knob "/proc/<pid>/reclaim" so platform can reclaim
> any process anytime.
>

Could it make sense to invoke this automatically,
perhaps from the Android low memory killer code?

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