From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pg0-f72.google.com (mail-pg0-f72.google.com [74.125.83.72]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD942803FE for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:13:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pg0-f72.google.com with SMTP id b8so18936146pgn.10 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-pg0-x234.google.com (mail-pg0-x234.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400e:c05::234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m80si1745420pfj.129.2017.08.23.16.13.29 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pg0-x234.google.com with SMTP id 83so6806609pgb.3 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:13:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:13:26 -0700 (PDT) From: David Rientjes Subject: Re: [v5 2/4] mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer In-Reply-To: <20170823174603.GA26190@castle.DHCP.thefacebook.com> Message-ID: References: <20170814183213.12319-1-guro@fb.com> <20170814183213.12319-3-guro@fb.com> <20170822170344.GA13547@cmpxchg.org> <20170823162031.GA13578@castle.dhcp.TheFacebook.com> <20170823172441.GA29085@cmpxchg.org> <20170823174603.GA26190@castle.DHCP.thefacebook.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Roman Gushchin Cc: Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, Michal Hocko , Vladimir Davydov , Tetsuo Handa , Tejun Heo , kernel-team@fb.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Roman Gushchin wrote: > > It's better to have newbies consult the documentation once than making > > everybody deal with long and cumbersome names for the rest of time. > > > > Like 'ls' being better than 'read_and_print_directory_contents'. > > I don't think it's a good argument here: realistically, nobody will type > the knob's name often. Your option is shorter only by 3 characters :) > > Anyway, I'm ok with memory.oom_group too, if everybody else prefer it. > Michal, David? > What's your opinion? > I'm probably the worst person in the world for succinctly naming stuff, but I at least think the knob should have the word "kill" in it to describe the behavior. ("oom_group", out of memory group, what exactly is that?) -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org