From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECB76B004A for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:48:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from kpbe17.cbf.corp.google.com (kpbe17.cbf.corp.google.com [172.25.105.81]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id oA9NmNjA012340 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:48:23 -0800 Received: from pzk4 (pzk4.prod.google.com [10.243.19.132]) by kpbe17.cbf.corp.google.com with ESMTP id oA9NlMQI008384 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:48:22 -0800 Received: by pzk4 with SMTP id 4so8846pzk.31 for ; Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:48:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:48:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable" In-Reply-To: <20101109233541.13be4cd5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20101101030353.607A.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20101109105801.BC30.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20101109233541.13be4cd5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Alan Cox Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , linux-mm List-ID: On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > 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. > Good point, the only documentation right now is in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and in the kernel log the first time oom_adj is written. I'll generate a patch, thanks! -- 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