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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! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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