Re: [PATCH 1/4] oom: remove totalpage normalization from oom_badness()

[Pekka Enberg <penberg () kernel org>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:57 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro () jp fujitsu com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> >
> > > Current oom_score_adj is completely broken because It is strongly bound
> > > google usecase and ignore other all.
> >
> > We've talked about this issue three times already.  The last two times
> > you've sent a revert patch, you failed to followup on the threads:
> >
> >       http://marc.info/?t=128272938200002
> >       http://marc.info/?t=128324705200002
> >
> > And now you've gone above Andrew, who is the maintainer of this code, and
> > straight to Linus.  Between that and your failure to respond to my answers
> > to your questions, I'm really stunned at how unprofessional you've handled
> > this.
>
> Selfish must die. you failed to persuade to me. and I havgen't get anyone's objection.
> Then, I don't care your ugly whining.

I haven't followed the discussion at all so I hope you don't mind me
jumping in. Are there some real-world bug reports where OOM rewrite is
to blame? Why haven't those been fixed?

                        Pekka