From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: oom killer rewrite
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:07:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100524070714.GV2516@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100524100840.1E95.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:09:34AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
>
> > KOSAKI,
> >
> > I've been notified that my entire oom killer rewrite has been dropped from
> > -mm based solely on your feedback. The problem is that I have absolutely
> > no idea what issues you have with the changes that haven't already been
> > addressed (nobody else does, either, it seems).
I had exactly the same issues with the userland kernel API changes and
the pagefault OOM regression it introduced, which I told you months ago.
You ignored me, it seems.
>
> That's simple. A regression and an incompatibility are absolutely
> unacceptable. They should be removed. Your patches have some funny parts,
> but, afaik, nobody said funny requirement itself is wrong. They only said
> your requirement don't have to cause any pain to other users.
>
> Zero risk patches are always acceptable.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-24 7:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-19 22:14 oom killer rewrite David Rientjes
2010-05-20 0:27 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-05-25 9:42 ` David Rientjes
2010-05-26 0:17 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-05-26 1:40 ` David Rientjes
2010-05-26 2:00 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-05-26 3:26 ` David Rientjes
2010-05-24 1:09 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-24 7:07 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-05-25 9:46 ` David Rientjes
2010-05-25 10:05 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-25 10:23 ` David Rientjes
2010-05-25 10:31 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-25 9:55 ` David Rientjes
2010-05-26 0:02 ` David Rientjes
2010-05-28 5:27 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-05-28 5:25 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-06-01 7:30 ` David Rientjes
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