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

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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. :)

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