From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22A3D6B0093 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:17:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp ([10.0.50.76]) by fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp (Fujitsu Gateway) with ESMTP id oAN7H1hh028391 for (envelope-from kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:17:01 +0900 Received: from smail (m6 [127.0.0.1]) by outgoing.m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF1845DE51 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:17:01 +0900 (JST) Received: from s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp [10.0.50.96]) by m6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622FC45DE53 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:17:01 +0900 (JST) Received: from s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C74C1DB8015 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:17:01 +0900 (JST) Received: from ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com (ml14.s.css.fujitsu.com [10.249.87.104]) by s6.gw.fujitsu.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C6D1DB8014 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:17:00 +0900 (JST) From: KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [patch] oom: document obsolete oom_adj tunable In-Reply-To: References: <20101115091908.BEEB.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-Id: <20101123161210.7BA8.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:16:59 +0900 (JST) Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > > > /proc/pid/oom_adj was deprecated in August 2010 with the introduction of > > > the new oom killer heuristic. > > > > > > This patch copies the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt entry > > > for this tunable to the Documentation/ABI/obsolete directory so nobody > > > misses it. > > > > > > Reported-by: Alan Cox > > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes > > > > NAK. You seems to think shouting claim makes some effect. but It's incorrect. > > Your childish shout doesn't solve any real world issue. Only code fix does. > > > > The tunable is deprecated. If you are really that concerned about the > existing users who you don't think can convert in the next two years, why > don't you help them convert? That fixes the issue, but you're not > interested in that. I offered to convert any open-source users you can > list (the hardest part of the conversion is finding who to send patches to > :). You're only interested in continuing to assert your position as > correct even when the kernel is obviously moving in a different direction. Why don't you change by _your_ hand? _Usually_ userland software changed at first _by_ who wanted the change. Example, we fujitsu changed elf core file format when vma are >65536, but It was not made any breakage. we changed gdb, binutils, elfutils and etc etc _at_ first. > > Others may have a different opinion of who is being childish in this whole > ordeal. -- 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