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Message-Id: <20210804190055.b484ab15587cc891683eafea@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 19:00:55 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: zhangkui <zhangkui@...o.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise()
On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 16:20:10 +0800 zhangkui <zhangkui@...o.com> wrote:
> There is a usecase in Android that an app process's memory is swapped out
> by process_madvise() with MADV_PAGEOUT, such as the memory is swapped to
> zram or a backing device. When the process is scheduled to running, like
> switch to foreground, multiple page faults may cause the app dropped
> frames.
> To reduce the problem, SMS can read-ahead memory of the process immediately
> when the app switches to forground.
> Calling process_madvise() with MADV_WILLNEED can meet this need.
>
What is SMS?
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