From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@kroah.com>, "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Nick Piggin" <npiggin@suse.de>, "San Mehat" <san@android.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] oom: cleanup android low memory killer
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 19:32:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FF7B02.9050608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905041607170.6073@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
David Rientjes wrote:
> There was an interest in a low mem userspace notifier that applications
> can poll() on at configurable low mem levels to react accordingly. This
> would probably address the problem that the Android team is trying to fix.
This would also make it easier for virtual machines to be
ballooned down to size when the host experiences memory
pressure.
The low memory notification could also be useful for JVMs,
databases that do (some of) their own caching and any garbage
collected program in general.
--
All rights reversed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 16:35 [patch 1/5] oom: cleanup android low memory killer David Rientjes
2009-05-04 16:35 ` [patch 2/5] oom: fix possible android low memory killer NULL pointer David Rientjes
2009-05-04 16:35 ` [patch 3/5] oom: fix possible oom_dump_tasks " David Rientjes
2009-05-04 16:35 ` [patch 4/5] oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct David Rientjes
2009-05-04 16:35 ` [patch 5/5] oom: prevent possible OOM_DISABLE livelock David Rientjes
2009-05-04 21:48 ` [patch 1/5] oom: cleanup android low memory killer Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-05-04 22:09 ` Greg KH
2009-05-04 22:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] lowmemorykiller: Only iterate over process list when needed Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-05-04 22:24 ` [PATCH 2/2] lowmemorykiller: Don't count free space unless it meets the specified limit by itself Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-05-04 22:35 ` [patch 1/5] oom: cleanup android low memory killer David Rientjes
2009-05-04 22:59 ` Greg KH
2009-05-04 23:12 ` David Rientjes
2009-05-04 23:16 ` Greg KH
2009-05-04 23:36 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-05-04 23:59 ` David Rientjes
2009-05-04 23:32 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2009-05-11 19:44 ` David Rientjes
2009-05-14 12:23 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
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