Using kswapd's scan depth to trigger task kills is inconsistent and
unreliable. When memory pressure quickly spikes, the kswapd scan depth
trigger fails to kick off Simple LMK fast enough, causing severe lag.
Additionally, kswapd could stop scanning prematurely before reaching the
desired scan depth to trigger Simple LMK, which could also cause stalls.
To remedy this, use the vmpressure framework instead, since it provides
more consistent and accurate readings on memory pressure. This is not
very tunable though, so remove CONFIG_ANDROID_SIMPLE_LMK_AGGRESSION.
Triggering Simple LMK to kill when the reported memory pressure is 100
should yield good results on all setups.
Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Signed-off-by: azrim <mirzaspc@gmail.com>
The 20 ms delay in the reclaim thread is a hacky fudge factor that can
cause Simple LMK to behave wildly differently depending on the
circumstances of when it is invoked. When kswapd doesn't get enough CPU
time to finish up and go back to sleep within 20 ms, Simple LMK performs
superfluous reclaims.
This is suboptimal, so make Simple LMK more deterministic by eliminating
the delay and instead queuing up reclaim requests from kswapd.
Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Signed-off-by: azrim <mirzaspc@gmail.com>
This is a complete low memory killer solution for Android that is small
and simple. Processes are killed according to the priorities that
Android gives them, so that the least important processes are always
killed first. Processes are killed until memory deficits are satisfied,
as observed from kswapd struggling to free up pages. Simple LMK stops
killing processes when kswapd finally goes back to sleep.
The only tunables are the desired amount of memory to be freed per
reclaim event and desired frequency of reclaim events. Simple LMK tries
to free at least the desired amount of memory per reclaim and waits
until all of its victims' memory is freed before proceeding to kill more
processes.
Signed-off-by: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>
Signed-off-by: azrim <mirzaspc@gmail.com>
