On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > Shrinkers are there to reclaim and prevent from OOM. This API is a gray > zone. It looks generic method for the notification yet it allows to > prevent from oom killer. I can imagine somebody might abuse this > interface to implement OOM killer policies. > > Anyway, I think it would be preferable to kill it altogether rather than > play with its placing. It will always be a questionable API. > Agreed. -- 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>