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by josefbacik 2894 days ago
It would be nice, but for complicated systems in the kernel you sometimes have to provide evidence that the old way sucks and the new way is better. With this work we can easily point at our production workloads and say the in kernel oom killer sucks and this new way is obviously better and hopefully work towards a better in kernel solution. That being said the user is always going to know what they care about more than the kernel, so being able to say “kill chef first, alway” can be a nice thing to have.