From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AFCC6B004A for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:37:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:35:41 +0000 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable" Message-ID: <20101109233541.13be4cd5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20101101030353.607A.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20101109105801.BC30.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , linux-mm List-ID: > It's deprecated for a few years so users can gradually convert to the new > tunable, it wasn't removed when the new one was introduced. A higher > resolution tunable that scales linearly with a unit is an advantage for > Linux (for the minority of users who care about oom killing priority > beyond the heuristic) and I think a few years is enough time for users to > do a simple conversion to the new tunable. Documentation/ABI/obsolete/ should have all obsoletes in it. Alan -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org