From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:47:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Discussion on my OOM killer API In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Oeser , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > I'm also willing to maintain it ;-) > > Linus, how would you feel about an interface that allows > people to insomd/rmmod their own OOM handler ? I hate the idea. I dislike that kind of approach in general. I don't like plug-in schedulers, etc either. I think it's a cop-out, saying that we cannot do a good enough job, and claiming that it's such a difficult problem that we should let the user decide. And in the end it ends up just screwing everybody, because all the modules will do the wrong thing in some circumstances, and nobody ever bothers to test _their_ module for anything but the case they care about. In short, it's one of those things that sounds like a good idea, but that results in absolute crap in the end. Linus -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/