Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753746Ab0KIXsZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:48:25 -0500 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.44.51]:17496 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752569Ab0KIXsY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:48:24 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=google.com; s=beta; h=date:from:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id :references:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=qzo1jHS4x2aofK5vZLnB7Y0vv15VazAns4tAtgfaprfvicVXNUnJLCMQm3O7BITiik uHoyUgIviY8QD6w1l6Ww== Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:48:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Alan Cox cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , linux-mm 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> 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: 973 Lines: 22 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 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/