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From: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Sangwoo Park <sangwoo2.park@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mm: per-process reclaim
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 10:01:07 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160615010107.GE17127@bbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465837595.2756.1.camel@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 01:06:35PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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?

It's doable. In fact, It was first internal implementation of our
product. However, I wanted to use it on platforms which don't have
lowmemory killer. :)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-15  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-13  7:50 [PATCH v1 0/3] per-process reclaim Minchan Kim
2016-06-13  7:50 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] mm: vmscan: refactoring force_reclaim Minchan Kim
2016-06-13  7:50 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] mm: vmscan: shrink_page_list with multiple zones Minchan Kim
2016-06-13  7:50 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] mm: per-process reclaim Minchan Kim
2016-06-13 15:06   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-06-15  0:40     ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-16 11:07       ` Michal Hocko
2016-06-16 14:41       ` Johannes Weiner
2016-06-17  6:43         ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-17  7:24     ` Balbir Singh
2016-06-17  7:57       ` Vinayak Menon
2016-06-13 17:06   ` Rik van Riel
2016-06-15  1:01     ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2016-06-13 11:50 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] " Chen Feng
2016-06-13 12:22   ` ZhaoJunmin Zhao(Junmin)
2016-06-15  0:43   ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-13 13:29 ` Vinayak Menon
2016-06-15  0:57   ` Minchan Kim
2016-06-16  4:21     ` Vinayak Menon
     [not found] <040501d1c55a$81d51910$857f4b30$@alibaba-inc.com>
2016-06-13 10:07 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] mm: " Hillf Danton
2016-06-15  0:46   ` Minchan Kim

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