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

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On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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.
> 

Good point, the only documentation right now is in 
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt and in the kernel log the first 
time oom_adj is written.  I'll generate a patch, thanks!

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