On 02/10/2017 11:27 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > [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. Not really what this patch address. I see it as a problem with shrinker that there no slow-path-free (scan/count) where it should belong. This patch address a specific problem where lot of cpu are wasted in low memory conditions. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
