Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756639Ab0BOWaP (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:30:15 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:51297 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756609Ab0BOWaM (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:30:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:28:45 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: David Rientjes Cc: Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Nick Piggin , Andrea Arcangeli , Balbir Singh , Lubos Lunak , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [patch -mm 6/9 v2] oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable Message-ID: <20100215222845.0b0f2781@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.6; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 691 Lines: 17 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:20:16 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes wrote: > /proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be > removed. The target date for removal is December 2011. There are systems that rely on this feature. It's ABI, its sacred. We are committed to it and it has users. That doesn't really detract from the good/bad of the rest of the proposal, it's just one step we can't quite make. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/