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

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Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:02:39 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...gle.com>,
	"Figo.zhang" <figo1802@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert oom rewrite series

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > > > You may remember that the initial version of my rewrite replaced oom_adj 
> > > > entirely with the new oom_score_adj semantics.  Others suggested that it 
> > > > be seperated into a new tunable and the old tunable deprecated for a 
> > > > lengthy period of time.  I accepted that criticism and understood the 
> > > > drawbacks of replacing the tunable immediately and followed those 
> > > > suggestions.  I disagree with you that the deprecation of oom_adj for a 
> > > > period of two years is as dramatic as you imply and I disagree that users 
> > > > are experiencing problems with the linear scale that it now operates on 
> > > > versus the old exponential scale.
> > > 
> > > Yes and No. People wanted to separate AND don't break old one.
> > > 
> > 
> > You're arguing on the behalf of applications that don't exist.
> 
> Why?
> You actually got the bug report.
> 

There have never been any bug reports related to applications using 
oom_score_adj and being impacted with its linear mapping onto oom_adj's 
exponential scale.  That's because no users prior to the rewrite were 
using oom_adj scores that were based on either the expected memory usage 
of the application nor the capacity of the machine.
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