From: Alex Shi <seakeel@gmail.com>
To: yanteng si <siyanteng01@gmail.com>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>,
Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>,
Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/zh_CN: add core api cachetlb translation
Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 18:04:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd3b4235-b828-ce63-4cb2-f395c6190f29@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEensMyGHOQ6DMkU_WHByQJbAD8L+-M5uvj1AwVs+Dp=coYLQw@mail.gmail.com>
On 2021/5/31 下午5:18, yanteng si wrote:
> Alex Shi <seakeel@gmail.com> 于2021年5月31日周一 上午11:11写道：
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2021/5/27 下午12:31, Yanteng Si wrote:
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..9568c15f4139
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,319 @@
>>> +======================
>>> +Linux下的缓存和TLB冲洗
>>> +======================
>>> +
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I don't insist on the 'flush' translation, although it is used to be translated
>> as 刷新. I just never see it was translated as ‘冲洗’ in computer area.
>>
>> Any more comments or suggestions for this?
> Dear Alex,
>
> I admit that "冲洗" doesn't sound very good. But,How to translate
> "refresh（刷新）"?:-)
>
> The act of "flush" is to invalidate dirty data，This is obviously not
> consistent with the act of "refreshing", which is simply invalid.
> "刷新" is actually two operations, i.e. brush off the old one and come
> back to the new one.
>
This make sense, but would the word 冲刷 better? A brand new word may take
more time to be custom.
> BTW：
> flush is ambiguous in the description of cache management because it
> can mean both invalidation and write-back, while TLB only has an
> invalidation operation here, so there is no ambiguity in using flush
> here.
>
> Thanks,
> Yanteng
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-31 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-27 4:31 [PATCH] docs/zh_CN: add core api cachetlb translation Yanteng Si
2021-05-31 3:11 ` Alex Shi
2021-05-31 9:18 ` yanteng si
2021-05-31 10:04 ` Alex Shi [this message]
2021-05-31 12:21 ` yanteng si
2021-05-31 5:26 ` Wu X.C.
2021-05-31 12:08 ` yanteng si
2021-06-01 2:48 ` Alex Shi
2021-06-01 12:31 ` yanteng si
2021-06-02 8:50 ` Alex Shi
2021-06-02 10:09 ` yanteng si
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