linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series

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Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:16:57 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	"Figo.zhang" <zhangtianfei@...dcoretech.com>,
	"Figo.zhang" <figo1802@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series


sorry for the delay.

> > The goal was to make the oom killer heuristic as predictable as possible 
> > and to kill the most memory-hogging task to avoid having to recall it and 
> > needlessly kill several tasks.
> 
> Meta question - why is that a good thing. In a desktop environment it's
> frequently wrong, in a server environment it is often wrong. We had this
> before where people spend months fiddling with the vm and make it work
> slightly differently and it suits their workload, then other workloads go
> downhill. Then the cycle repeats.
> 
> > You have full control over disabling a task from being considered with 
> > oom_score_adj just like you did with oom_adj.  Since oom_adj is 
> > deprecated for two years, you can even use the old interface until then.
> 
> Which changeset added it to the Documentation directory as deprecated ?

It's insufficient.
a63d83f427fbce97a6cea0db2e64b0eb8435cd10 (oom: badness heuristic rewrite)
introduced a lot of incompatibility to oom_adj and oom_score.
Theresore I would sugestted full revert and resubmit some patches which
cherry pick no pain piece.


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