From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A55C4320A for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221A26127B for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235446AbhHXUhI (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:37:08 -0400 Received: from smtp-out2.suse.de ([195.135.220.29]:59200 "EHLO smtp-out2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S235097AbhHXUhH (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:37:07 -0400 Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-out2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA00E200B3; Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:36:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.cz; s=susede2_rsa; t=1629837381; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=uxAxdlMT56BpyfilaunuCC9NXWquMaDv1rB5K2KZvZA=; b=IHlEywqMTGXwgOiFLYpWtMML2yfEs2P+ATuI9gNpLDrSaEodkzhNCBnhNEXvsJv6gvzI7I 9P/wofhq4jX7lgg2O/pEt8zEucDZq/mIYcfKU+B0FKJU5X8w+p8JZcre+ilCVPYINneovl ZVDrvA7HJ4u/hWvEGh6t9wZw62134sQ= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.cz; s=susede2_ed25519; t=1629837381; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=uxAxdlMT56BpyfilaunuCC9NXWquMaDv1rB5K2KZvZA=; b=xn7AIVjhwWV20vUrItQwOJOEux6lZtJGA72lQwY6xXdkqZ+1ZXjGwb0GEtCen/mGVNWEKB JZGqJ6zMyEHqYbDw== Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72E7313B56; Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([192.168.254.65]) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de with ESMTPSA id 5bw1GkVYJWFZagAAMHmgww (envelope-from ); Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:36:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15 To: David Howells , Matthew Wilcox Cc: Linus Torvalds , Johannes Weiner , Linux-MM , linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton References: <1957060.1629820467@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <1967144.1629833751@warthog.procyon.org.uk> From: Vlastimil Babka Message-ID: <0ab69444-2d39-27bf-4be1-2a5401c16eac@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:35:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1967144.1629833751@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 8/24/21 9:35 PM, David Howells wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >> Sure, but at the time Jeff Bonwick chose it, it had no meaning in >> computer science or operating system design. Whatever name is chosen, >> we'll get used to it. I don't even care what name it is. >> >> I want "short" because it ends up used everywhere. I don't want to >> be typing >> lock_hippopotamus(hippopotamus); >> >> and I want greppable so it's not confused with something somebody else >> has already used as an identifier. > > Can you live with pageset? Pagesets already exist in the page allocator internals. Yeah, could be renamed as it's not visible outside. > David > >