Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755075Ab0KIXha (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:37:30 -0500 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:59440 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751436Ab0KIXh3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:37:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:35:41 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: David Rientjes Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , linux-mm Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable" Message-ID: <20101109233541.13be4cd5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20101101030353.607A.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> <20101109105801.BC30.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 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: 733 Lines: 17 > 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. 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/