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

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > NACK as a logical follow-up to my NACK for "oom: remove totalpage 
> > normalization from oom_badness()"
> 
> Huh?
> 
> I requested you show us justification. BUT YOU DIDNT. If you have any 
> usecase, show us RIGHT NOW. 
> 

The new tunable added in 2.6.36, /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is necessary for 
the units that the badness score now uses.  We need a tunable with a much 
higher resolution than the oom_adj scale from -16 to +15, and one that 
scales linearly as opposed to exponentially.  Since that tunable is much 
more powerful than the oom_adj implementation, which never made any real 
sense for defining oom killing priority for any purpose other than 
polarization, the old tunable is deprecated for two years.
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