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Safer that way. Of course. So AFAIU the plan is: 1) update the oom accuracy fix to only use the precise sum for the oom killer, no changes to procfs ABIs. This targets mm-new. 2) update the hpcc series to base them on top of the new fix from (1). Update their commit messages to indicate that they bring accuracy improvements to the procfs ABI on large many-core systems, as well as latency improvements to the oom killer. This will target upstreaming after the next merge window, but I will still post it soon to gather feedback. Does that plan look OK ? Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. https://www.efficios.com