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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
