Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:48:17 -0800 (PST) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [resend][PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable" |
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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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