From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "David Rientjes" <rientjes@google.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"San Mehat" <san@android.com>,
"Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] lowmemorykiller: Only iterate over process list when needed.
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 09:31:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090505163153.GA30292@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090505102359.GD28917@wotan.suse.de>
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:23:59PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:26:50PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
> >
> > Use NR_ACTIVE plus NR_INACTIVE as a size estimate for our fake cache
> > instead the sum of rss. Neither method is accurate.
> >
> > Also skip the process scan, if the amount of memory available is above
> > the largest threshold set.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
>
> Didn't really look at the android stuff because I didn't even know
> it was there before. But I asume it is going to be "submitted" to
> the kernel proper at some stage (by some means other than a git rename) :)
Yes it will, when everyone agrees that what it is doing is the "right"
think to do :)
But for now, it sits in staging, as there are a few hundred thousand
devices using it...
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-05 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-05 0:26 [patch 1/7] lowmemorykiller: Only iterate over process list when needed David Rientjes
2009-05-05 0:26 ` [patch 2/7] lowmemorykiller: Don't count free space unless it meets the specified limit by itself David Rientjes
2009-05-05 0:26 ` [patch 3/7] oom: cleanup android low memory killer David Rientjes
2009-05-05 0:26 ` [patch 4/7] oom: fix possible android low memory killer NULL pointer David Rientjes
2009-05-05 0:27 ` [patch 5/7] oom: fix possible oom_dump_tasks " David Rientjes
2009-05-05 10:11 ` Nick Piggin
2009-05-05 0:27 ` [patch 6/7] oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct David Rientjes
2009-05-05 10:18 ` Nick Piggin
2009-05-05 18:29 ` David Rientjes
2009-05-05 0:27 ` [patch 7/7] oom: prevent possible OOM_DISABLE livelock David Rientjes
2009-05-05 10:22 ` Nick Piggin
2009-05-05 18:33 ` David Rientjes
2009-05-05 10:23 ` [patch 1/7] lowmemorykiller: Only iterate over process list when needed Nick Piggin
2009-05-05 16:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
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