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

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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:27:33 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     peter enderborg <peter.enderborg@...ymobile.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
        Riley Andrews <riandrews@...roid.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 staging-next] android: Lowmemmorykiller task tree

[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.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs