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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
	Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"Wangkai (Kevin C)" <wangkai86@huawei.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs/dcache: Make negative dentries easier to be reclaimed
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:04:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180829210404.GA2925@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180829175405.GA17337@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:54:05AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 04:01:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > People often use the term "the foo() function".  I don't know why -
> > just say "foo()"!
> 
> For whatever it is worth...
> 
> I tend to use "The foo() function ..." instead of "foo() ..." in order
> to properly capitalize the first word of the sentence.  So I might say
> "The call_rcu() function enqueues an RCU callback." rather than something
> like "call_rcu() enqueues an RCU callback."  Or I might use some other
> trick to keep "call_rcu()" from being the first word of the sentence.

I tend to write 'Use call_rcu() to enqueue a callback." or "When
call_rcu() returns, the callback will have been enqueued".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-28 17:19 [PATCH 0/2] fs/dcache: Track # of negative dentries Waiman Long
2018-08-28 17:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs/dcache: Track & report number " Waiman Long
2018-08-29  0:11   ` Dave Chinner
2018-08-29 17:11     ` Waiman Long
2018-08-30  1:43       ` Dave Chinner
2018-08-30 21:49         ` Waiman Long
2018-08-31 14:31     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-31 15:03       ` Waiman Long
2018-08-28 17:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs/dcache: Make negative dentries easier to be reclaimed Waiman Long
2018-08-28 22:13   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-28 22:29     ` Waiman Long
2018-08-28 23:10       ` Linus Torvalds
2018-08-28 23:22         ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-29  1:18           ` Waiman Long
2018-08-29  1:18         ` Waiman Long
2018-08-28 23:01   ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-29 17:54     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-08-29 20:03       ` Waiman Long
2018-08-29 21:04       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-08-29  1:02   ` Dave Chinner
2018-08-29 19:34     ` Waiman Long
2018-08-30  1:12       ` Dave Chinner
2018-08-30 21:51         ` Waiman Long
2018-08-29  7:51   ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-29 19:58     ` Waiman Long
2018-08-30  7:20       ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-30 21:48         ` Waiman Long
2018-08-28 22:50 ` [PATCH 0/2] fs/dcache: Track # of negative dentries Andrew Morton
2018-08-28 22:54   ` Waiman Long

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