Re: Discussion on my OOM killer API

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Ingo Oeser wrote:

> You might remember the shortest "API" ever: The OOM killer API[1]
> I posted during the last round of hot discussion on OOM killing.
> 
> What are the reasons of not including it? Its only a few lines
> for a complete API. 
> 
> I could have made it full blown with reference counting,
> automatic releasing old OOM killers and a nice proc interface[2]
> for letting the user say which he wants. 

> 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 think we should be able to do this in less than half
a kb of kernel code and it might be able to get the last
few people who complain silenced as they try to produce
their own OOM killer ;)

[and we have a maintainer ... what else do we need ? ]

regards,

Rik
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