Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: don't promote exclusive file folios of dying processes

[David Hildenbrand]

> > We actually took a more aggressive approach by implementing a hook to demote
> > exclusive folios of dying apps, which yielded good results—reducing kswapd
> > overhead, refaults, and thrashing. Of course, it is even much more controversial
> > than this patch.
>
> That doesn't sound wrong to me for Android apps.
>
> How about a prctl() to request the behavior for those specific app
> processes where you have clear usage signal?

I was thinking about the same, so likely that might be a viable solution.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb