Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756678Ab0BOWfd (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:35:33 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:51386 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756147Ab0BOWfa (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:35:30 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id: references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:x-system-of-record; b=R/IaVkKkF+s29lHgL4lkhPc5xuEHUwqzylAit50v0IRyILeljpGBj4Ar4uZ2eoSFz F1Q9kq6awEEL1W4MxfX4w== Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:35:21 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Alan Cox 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 In-Reply-To: <20100215222845.0b0f2781@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20100215222845.0b0f2781@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 933 Lines: 20 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Alan Cox 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. > Andrew suggested that it be deprecated in this way, so that's what was done. I don't have any strong opinions about leaving it around forever now that it's otherwise unused beyond simply converting itself into units for /proc/pid/oom_score_adj at a much higher granularity. -- 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/