Re: lowmemory android driver not needed?

["MinChan Kim" <minchan.kim@gmail.com>]

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Hi, Arve.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> wrote:> The oom killer does not kick in until all caches are emptied. Our user> space code changes the oom_adj value of processes that are no longer> in the foreground so that they killed first (the process saves its> state but does not exit). To avoid excessive demand paging, the low> memory killer will kill these processes when the memory available> drops below a threshold.

It have some problems. (drivers/staging/android/lwmemorykiller.c)
1. lowmem_shrink function have to answer about vm's query the cache size fast.2. it don't consider page size and memory size when it makelowmem_minfree's values.3. If system have many processes, for_each_process take a long time.it may result system latency although lowmemkiller intend to avoidlatency.4. Most important thing. Could we use memory controller instead oflowmemkiller ? I am not sure since I don't follow up memory controllerin these days.
I think we have to use existing facility if possible.Previously, There are similar kinds of patches. but It can't mergemainline due to some issue.  They can comment about lowmemkiller. Iwill CC them.
> --> Arve Hjønnevåg>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> wrote:>>>> Looping in Arve who wrote the low memory killer and can explain things>> in more detail.>>>> Brian>>>> [Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]>>> Hi San,>>>>>> Alan Cox pointed me at the /proc/<pid>/oom_adj file that controls the>>> oom-killer score for any process as being more than sufficent to control>>> the oom killer.>>>>>> This makes me wonder why you wrote the android lowmemlorykiller driver?>>>>>> What is that driver for that is not already present in the existing>>> oom_* values for every process?>>>>>> thanks,>>>>>> greg k-h>> -->> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org>> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html>> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/>>> --> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/>


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