On 02/15, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > > >This is an extra pointer to task_struct and more lines of code to > >accomplish the same thing. Why would we want to do that? > > I don't think it's more "actual" lines of code (I think the wrapping is > inflating the line number count),
I too think it doesn't make sense to blow task_struct and the generated code. And to me this patch doesn't make the source code more clean. > but switching it means that it's more in > line with other queues in the kernel (it took me a bit to figure out what > was going on with oom_reaper_list beforehand). perhaps you can turn oom_reaper_list into llist_head then. This will also allow to remove oom_reaper_lock. Not sure this makes sense too. Oleg.
