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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1011091547030.30112@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:48:17 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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"

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!
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