On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Michal Hocko wrote: > > The force_kill member of struct oom_context isn't needed if an order of > > -1 is used instead. > > But this doesn't make much sense to me. It is not like we would _have_ > to spare few bytes here. The meaning of force_kill is clear while order > with a weird value is a hack. It is harder to follow without any good > reason. >
To me, this is the same as treating order == -1 as special in struct compact_control meaning that it was triggered from the command line and we really want to fully compact memory. It seems to have a nice symmetry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
