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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: ANDROID low memory killer register (was Linux killed Kenny, bastard!)
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:27:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090113122722.205605cf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090113122356.GB25011@ioremap.net>

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:23:56 +0300
Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:10:38PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
> > I believe they are related in the sense that both of them are
> > unneccessary and should not make the final kernel...
> > 
> > The /proc../oom_adj interface is again sufficient for this.
> 
> Besides the fact that it will unlikely to work the way you expect, since
> oom adjustment is racy and may be too late, or not happend at all...

I would love to see a proposal that met such criteria. I don't think I
ever will and your random name based hack isn't it. The closest we have
right now is the container stuff.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-13 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13 10:58 Linux killed Kenny, bastard! Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-01-13 12:10 ` ANDROID low memory killer register (was Linux killed Kenny, bastard!) Alan Cox
2009-01-13 12:23   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-01-13 12:27     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-01-13 12:20 ` Linux killed Kenny, bastard! Evgeniy Polyakov

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