On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 06:52:10PM -0800, David Rientjes wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > The long-standing, user-visible definition of the current line agrees > > with me. You can't just redefine this, period. > > > > I tried to explain to you how insane the motivation for this patch is, > > but it does not look like you are reading what I write. But you don't > > get to change user-visible behavior just like that anyway, much less > > so without a sane reason, so this was a complete waste of time :-( > > > > If you would like to leave this to Andrew's decision, that's fine. > Michal has already agreed with my patch and has acked it in -mm. > > If userspace is going to handle oom conditions, which is possible today > and will be extended in the future, then it should only wakeup as a last > resort when there is no possibility of future memory freeing. I'll ack a patch that accomplishes that. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>