From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f199.google.com (mail-wr0-f199.google.com [209.85.128.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5516B0038 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 05:27:35 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wr0-f199.google.com with SMTP id 67so11667090wrb.5 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:27:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de. [195.135.220.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k91si1579113wrc.221.2017.02.10.02.27.34 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:27:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:27:33 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 staging-next] android: Lowmemmorykiller task tree Message-ID: <20170210102732.GB10054@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: peter enderborg Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Riley Andrews , Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org [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. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org