[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 155255] MemoryPressureHandler doesn't work if cgroups aren't present in Linux

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155255

--- Comment #10 from ChangSeok Oh <changseok.oh at collabora.com> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> The current Linux implementation of MemoryPressureHandler relies on
> /sys/fs/cgroup/memory to be properly setup. This isn't the case for all
> desktop systems and embedded devices, so having an alternative method to
> measure memory pressure should be desirable (especially on embedded devices
> with limited memory).

As I rememeber, the polling way was considered but it was rejected because of a concern that regularly waking up cpu to read meminfo itself badly affected on performance. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123532#c2 . For the reason, it is intended that MemoryPressureHandler works for only cgroup avaiable platforms. I know there is a small difference between this approach and previous one, using a timer or sleep() in a separate thread. I am also glad to see this alernative memory handler though, I would like to ask if there is anything different from using timer way and this patch is actually useful on real embeded systems. How about performance there? Is it acceptable?

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