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SubjectRe: Android low memory killer vs. memory pressure notifications
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:12:09AM -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> > page_cgroup is 16B per page and with the current Johannes' memcg
> > naturalization work (in the mmotm tree) we are down to 8B per page (we
> > got rid of lru). Kamezawa has some patches to get rid of the flags so we
> > will be down to 4B per page on 32b. Is this still too much?
> > I would be really careful about a yet another lowmem notification
> > mechanism.
> >
>
> There was always general interest in a low memory notification mechanism
> even prior to memcg, see http://lwn.net/Articles/268732/ from Marcelo and
> KOSAKI-san. The desire is not only to avoid the metadata overhead of
> memcg, but also to avoid cgroups entirely.

Hm, assuming that metadata is no longer an issue, why do you think avoiding
cgroups would be a good idea?

Thanks,

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Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com


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