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SubjectRe: [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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