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

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Date:	Mon, 13 Jun 2016 13:06:35 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Sangwoo Park <sangwoo2.park@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] mm: per-process reclaim

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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