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Commit fe0ea308 authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Alistair Strachan
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ANDROID: add extra free kbytes tunable



Add a userspace visible knob to tell the VM to keep an extra amount
of memory free, by increasing the gap between each zone's min and
low watermarks.

This is useful for realtime applications that call system
calls and have a bound on the number of allocations that happen
in any short time period.  In this application, extra_free_kbytes
would be left at an amount equal to or larger than than the
maximum number of allocations that happen in any burst.

It may also be useful to reduce the memory use of virtual
machines (temporarily?), in a way that does not cause memory
fragmentation like ballooning does.

[ccross]
Revived for use on old kernels where no other solution exists.
The tunable will be removed on kernels that do better at avoiding
direct reclaim.

[surenb]
Will be reverted as soon as Android framework is reworked to
use upstream-supported watermark_scale_factor instead of
extra_free_kbytes.

Bug: 86445363
Bug: 109664768
Bug: 120445732
Change-Id: I765a42be8e964bfd3e2886d1ca85a29d60c3bb3e
Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarColin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
parent b27b4492
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