Re: ANDROID low memory killer register (was Linux killed Kenny,bastard!)

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:23:56 +0300
Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:10:38PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > I believe they are related in the sense that both of them are
> > unneccessary and should not make the final kernel...
> > 
> > The /proc../oom_adj interface is again sufficient for this.
> 
> Besides the fact that it will unlikely to work the way you expect, since
> oom adjustment is racy and may be too late, or not happend at all...

I would love to see a proposal that met such criteria. I don't think I
ever will and your random name based hack isn't it. The closest we have
right now is the container stuff.

Alan
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