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Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 11:22:29 -0400 From: Colin Walters <walters@...bum.org> To: Shawn Landden <slandden@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org Subject: Re: [RFC] EPOLL_KILLME: New flag to epoll_wait() that subscribes process to death row (new syscall) On Wed, Nov 1, 2017, at 11:16 AM, Colin Walters wrote: > > as the maintainer of glib2 which is used by a *lot* of things; I'm not (I meant to say "a" maintainer) Also, while I'm not an expert in Android, I think the "what to kill" logic there lives in userspace, right? So it feels like we should expose this state in e.g. /proc and allow userspace daemons (e.g. systemd, kubelet) to perform idle collection too, even if the system isn't actually low on resources from the kernel's perspective. And doing that requires some sort of kill(pid, SIGKILL_IF_IDLE) or so?
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