Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2010 23:35:41 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [resend][PATCH 2/4] Revert "oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable" |
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> 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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