Re: [patch] oom: document obsolete oom_adj tunable

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Tue Nov 23 2010 - 02:18:30 EST


> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>
> > > /proc/pid/oom_adj was deprecated in August 2010 with the introduction of
> > > the new oom killer heuristic.
> > >
> > > This patch copies the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt entry
> > > for this tunable to the Documentation/ABI/obsolete directory so nobody
> > > misses it.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > NAK. You seems to think shouting claim makes some effect. but It's incorrect.
> > Your childish shout doesn't solve any real world issue. Only code fix does.
> >
>
> The tunable is deprecated. If you are really that concerned about the
> existing users who you don't think can convert in the next two years, why
> don't you help them convert? That fixes the issue, but you're not
> interested in that. I offered to convert any open-source users you can
> list (the hardest part of the conversion is finding who to send patches to
> :). You're only interested in continuing to assert your position as
> correct even when the kernel is obviously moving in a different direction.

Why don't you change by _your_ hand?

_Usually_ userland software changed at first _by_ who wanted the change.
Example, we fujitsu changed elf core file format when vma are >65536, but
It was not made any breakage. we changed gdb, binutils, elfutils and etc etc
_at_ first.




>
> Others may have a different opinion of who is being childish in this whole
> ordeal.



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