Re: [resend][PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable"

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 18:37:33 EST


> 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.

Alan
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