linux-kernel - Re: [patch -mm v2] mm: introduce oom_adj

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Message-ID: <6599ad830907291625k697f17d3h87d054d796c59407@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:25:22 -0700
From:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, riel@...hat.com,
	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [patch -mm v2] mm: introduce oom_adj_child

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Andrew Morton<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Do we really need to do all that string hacking?  All it does is reads
> a plain old integer from userspace.

It would be nice to have the equivalent of the cgroupfs read_u64 and
write_u64 methods, where you just supply a function that
accepts/returns the appropriate value, and all the buffer munging is
done in the generic code.

Paul
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