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kubelet: eviction: add memcg threshold notifier to improve eviction responsiveness
This PR adds the ability for the eviction code to get immediate notification from the kernel when the available memory in the root cgroup falls below a user defined threshold, controlled by setting the `memory.available` siginal with the `--eviction-hard` flag.
This PR by itself, doesn't change anything as the frequency at which new stats can be obtained is currently controlled by the cadvisor housekeeping interval. That being the case, the call to `synchronize()` by the notification loop will very likely get stale stats and not act any more quickly than it does now.
However, whenever cadvisor does get on-demand stat gathering ability, this will improve eviction responsiveness by getting async notification of the root cgroup memory state rather than relying on polling cadvisor.
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