On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 01:06:35PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 2016-06-13 at 16:50 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > > These day, there are many platforms available in the embedded market > > and sometime, they has more hints about workingset than kernel so > > they want to involve memory management more heavily like android's > > lowmemory killer and ashmem or user-daemon with lowmemory notifier. > > > > This patch adds add new method for userspace to manage memory > > efficiently via knob "/proc/<pid>/reclaim" so platform can reclaim > > any process anytime. > > > > Could it make sense to invoke this automatically, > perhaps from the Android low memory killer code?
It's doable. In fact, It was first internal implementation of our product. However, I wanted to use it on platforms which don't have lowmemory killer. :)
