Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:52:37 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= <arve@android.com>
Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>, arve@google.com,
       San Mehat <san@android.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Robert Love <rlove@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lowmemory android driver not needed?
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:30:39PM -0800, Arve Hj?nnev?g wrote:
> The oom killer does not kick in until all caches are emptied. Our user
> space code changes the oom_adj value of processes that are no longer
> in the foreground so that they killed first (the process saves its
> state but does not exit). To avoid excessive demand paging, the low
> memory killer will kill these processes when the memory available
> drops below a threshold.

That makes sense.  Can you provide a bit of documentation that I can
include in the driver so that people can actually use the thing?  :)

Alan, does this sound like it should remain in the tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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