From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: ngupta@vflare.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mm-cc@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:27:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020908241127vc8dafa4l340d000097cf5548@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A92D7D4.7020807@vflare.org>
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Nitin Gupta<ngupta@vflare.org> wrote:
>> Is the name rzmalloc() too similar to kzalloc() which stands for
>> zeroing allocator, though? I think I suggested
>> ramzswap_alloc()/ramzswap_free() in the past to avoid confusion. I'd
>> rather go with that if we can't come up with a nice generic name that
>> stands for alloc_part_of_page_including_highmem().
>
> rzs_malloc()/rzs_free() ?
I am not sure what we gain from the shorter and more cryptic "rzs"
prefix compared to "ramzswap" but yeah, it's less likely to be
confused with kzalloc() so I'm okay with that.
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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: ngupta@vflare.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-mm-cc@laptop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:27:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020908241127vc8dafa4l340d000097cf5548@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A92D7D4.7020807@vflare.org>
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Nitin Gupta<ngupta@vflare.org> wrote:
>> Is the name rzmalloc() too similar to kzalloc() which stands for
>> zeroing allocator, though? I think I suggested
>> ramzswap_alloc()/ramzswap_free() in the past to avoid confusion. I'd
>> rather go with that if we can't come up with a nice generic name that
>> stands for alloc_part_of_page_including_highmem().
>
> rzs_malloc()/rzs_free() ?
I am not sure what we gain from the shorter and more cryptic "rzs"
prefix compared to "ramzswap" but yeah, it's less likely to be
confused with kzalloc() so I'm okay with that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-24 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-24 4:37 [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 4:37 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 17:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-24 17:33 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-24 17:52 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 17:52 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 18:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-24 18:08 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-24 18:11 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 18:11 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 18:27 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-08-24 18:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-24 18:40 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 18:40 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 19:36 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 19:36 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 19:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-24 19:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-24 21:16 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 21:16 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-25 4:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-25 4:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-24 20:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-08-24 20:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-08-24 21:16 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 21:16 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-24 21:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-08-24 21:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-08-25 14:52 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-25 14:52 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-25 19:03 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-25 19:03 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-26 16:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 16:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 16:17 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-26 16:17 ` Nitin Gupta
2009-08-26 16:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-26 16:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-08-26 16:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-08-26 16:07 ` Christoph Lameter
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