Re: [patch -mm 6/9 v2] oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Alan Cox wrote:

> > /proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be
> > removed.  The target date for removal is December 2011.
> 
> There are systems that rely on this feature. It's ABI, its sacred. We are
> committed to it and it has users. That doesn't really detract from the
> good/bad of the rest of the proposal, it's just one step we can't quite
> make.
> 

Andrew suggested that it be deprecated in this way, so that's what was 
done.  I don't have any strong opinions about leaving it around forever 
now that it's otherwise unused beyond simply converting itself into units 
for /proc/pid/oom_score_adj at a much higher granularity.
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