Re: [RFC v2 0/3] mm/mglru: proactive aging via memory.aging

On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 5:15 AM Zicheng Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> The benefit is workload-dependent: file-cache-bound servers gain from
> aging, anon-bound servers do not, so no kernel default is correct for
> all.  The kernel also cannot know when to age: on Android the right
> moment is the foreground-to-background transition, when the app's pages
> are cold but their PTE accessed bits are still accurate from foreground
> execution, a framework concept.

When an app transitions and becomes cached, we attempt to reclaim its
entire workingset. We basically cat memory.current > memory.reclaim
and freeze the cgroup.
https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/android-latest-release:system/core/libprocessgroup/task_profiles.cpp;drc=65bd7ab941a709bf049871406981022b988e1721;l=706

File / anon balance vs hotness and generational placement doesn't
matter in that scenario because we want to get rid of all of it. So I
don't really understand how you'd want to use an aging knob.