From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:02:06 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: Discussion on my OOM killer API In-Reply-To: <20001019122331.H840@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Oeser Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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/