linux-kernel - Re: [resend][PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom

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Message-ID: <20101109233541.13be4cd5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:35:41 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [resend][PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable"

> 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
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