Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:11:52 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2] prctl: prctl(PR_SET_IDLE, PR_IDLE_MODE_KILLME), for stateless idle loops |
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Hi!
> It is common for services to be stateless around their main event loop. > If a process sets PR_SET_IDLE to PR_IDLE_MODE_KILLME then it > signals to the kernel that epoll_wait() and friends may not complete, > and the kernel may send SIGKILL if resources get tight. > > See my systemd patch: https://github.com/shawnl/systemd/tree/prctl > > Android uses this memory model for all programs, and having it in the > kernel will enable integration with the page cache (not in this > series). > > 16 bytes per process is kinda spendy, but I want to keep > lru behavior, which mem_score_adj does not allow. When a supervisor, > like Android's user input is keeping track this can be done in user-space. > It could be pulled out of task_struct if an cross-indexing additional > red-black tree is added to support pid-based lookup.
Having android-like system for low memory killing might be interesting... but rather than throwing around patches maybe there should be discussion on lkml how the interface should look like, first?
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