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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:35:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160715153554.f9d12360e31441b720d6a6b1@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160715104605.GO9806@techsingularity.net>

On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:46:05 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 02:13:43PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:37:01 +0100 Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > > I don't care strongly enough to cause a respin of half the series, and
> > > > it's not your problem that I waited until the last revision went into
> > > > mmots to review and comment. But if you agreed to a revert, would you
> > > > consider tacking on a revert patch at the end of the series?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > In this case, I'm going to ask the other people on the cc for a
> > > tie-breaker. If someone else prefers the old names then I'm happy for
> > > your patch to be applied on top with my ack instead of respinning the
> > > whole series.
> > > 
> > > Anyone for a tie breaker?
> > 
> > I am aggressively undecided.  I guess as it's a bit of a 51/49
> > situation, the "stay with what people are familiar with" benefit tips the
> > balance toward the legacy names?
> > 
> 
> I still can't decide. It's currently still a draw in terms of naming. If
> you're worried, use the old naming. It wouldn't be the first time I
> thought a name was odd.

Well I dunno.  We can leave the series as-is for now and we can merge
the rename-it-back patch sometime during the next -rc cycle if we find
that people are running around in confusion and tumbling out of high
windows.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-15 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 109+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-08  9:34 [PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9 Mel Gorman
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 01/34] mm, vmstat: add infrastructure for per-node vmstats Mel Gorman
2016-08-03 19:13   ` Reza Arbab
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 02/34] mm, vmscan: move lru_lock to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 11:06   ` Balbir Singh
2016-07-12 11:18     ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-13  5:50       ` Balbir Singh
2016-07-13  8:39         ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 03/34] mm, vmscan: move LRU lists to node Mel Gorman
2016-08-04 20:59   ` James Hogan
2016-08-05  8:41     ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-05 10:52       ` James Hogan
2016-08-05 11:55         ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-05 12:02           ` James Hogan
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 04/34] mm, mmzone: clarify the usage of zone padding Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 13:49   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 05/34] mm, vmscan: begin reclaiming pages on a per-node basis Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 13:54   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-14  9:19   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 06/34] mm, vmscan: have kswapd only scan based on the highest requested zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 14:05   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-13  8:37     ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 07/34] mm, vmscan: make kswapd reclaim in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-08-29  9:38   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2016-08-30 12:07     ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-30 14:25       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2016-08-30 15:00         ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-31  6:09           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2016-08-31  8:49             ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-31 11:09               ` Michal Hocko
2016-08-31 12:46                 ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-31 17:33               ` Srikar Dronamraju
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 08/34] mm, vmscan: remove balance gap Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 14:06   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 09/34] mm, vmscan: simplify the logic deciding whether kswapd sleeps Mel Gorman
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 10/34] mm, vmscan: by default have direct reclaim only shrink once per node Mel Gorman
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 11/34] mm, vmscan: remove duplicate logic clearing node congestion and dirty state Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 14:22   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-13  8:40     ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-14  9:45   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 12/34] mm: vmscan: do not reclaim from kswapd if there is any eligible zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 14:29   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-13  8:47     ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-13 12:28       ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 13/34] mm, vmscan: make shrink_node decisions more node-centric Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 14:32   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-13  8:48     ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 14/34] mm, memcg: move memcg limit enforcement from zones to nodes Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 14:38   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 15/34] mm, workingset: make working set detection node-aware Mel Gorman
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 16/34] mm, page_alloc: consider dirtyable memory in terms of nodes Mel Gorman
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 17/34] mm: move page mapped accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 14:42   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 14:58   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-13  8:55     ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-13 13:04       ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-13 13:37         ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-13 21:13           ` Andrew Morton
2016-07-15 10:46             ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-15 22:35               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2016-07-18 13:34                 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-14  1:27           ` Minchan Kim
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 19/34] mm: move most file-based accounting to the node Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 15:11   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 20/34] mm: move vmscan writes and file write " Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 15:15   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 21/34] mm, vmscan: only wakeup kswapd once per node for the requested classzone Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 17:18   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 22/34] mm, page_alloc: wake kswapd based on the highest eligible zone Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 17:24   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-14 10:05   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:34 ` [PATCH 23/34] mm: convert zone_reclaim to node_reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 17:28   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 24/34] mm, vmscan: avoid passing in classzone_idx unnecessarily to shrink_node Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 17:31   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-14 10:09   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 25/34] mm, vmscan: avoid passing in classzone_idx unnecessarily to compaction_ready Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 18:01   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-14 12:12   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 26/34] mm, vmscan: avoid passing in remaining unnecessarily to prepare_kswapd_sleep Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 18:06   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-14 12:48   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 27/34] mm, vmscan: Have kswapd reclaim from all zones if reclaiming and buffer_heads_over_limit Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 18:10   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-14 12:54   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 28/34] mm, vmscan: add classzone information to tracepoints Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 18:13   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 29/34] mm, page_alloc: remove fair zone allocation policy Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 18:18   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 30/34] mm: page_alloc: cache the last node whose dirty limit is reached Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 18:43   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 31/34] mm: vmstat: replace __count_zone_vm_events with a zone id equivalent Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 19:10   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 32/34] mm: vmstat: account per-zone stalls and pages skipped during reclaim Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 19:06   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 33/34] mm, vmstat: print node-based stats in zoneinfo file Mel Gorman
2016-07-12 19:18   ` Johannes Weiner
2016-07-14 12:56   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-08  9:35 ` [PATCH 34/34] mm, vmstat: remove zone and node double accounting by approximating retries Mel Gorman
2016-07-14 13:40   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-07-15  7:48     ` Mel Gorman
2016-07-15 12:20       ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-08-19 13:12 ` [PATCH 00/34] Move LRU page reclaim from zones to nodes v9 Andrea Arcangeli
2016-08-19 13:23   ` Vlastimil Babka
2016-08-19 13:55     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2016-08-19 14:53   ` Mel Gorman
2016-08-19 15:32     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2016-08-19 15:55       ` Mel Gorman

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