From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-f197.google.com (mail-pf0-f197.google.com [209.85.192.197]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CFB828E4 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:35:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pf0-f197.google.com with SMTP id p64so243781035pfb.0 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id oy8si2083687pac.126.2016.07.15.15.35.55 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 15:35:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/34] mm: rename NR_ANON_PAGES to NR_ANON_MAPPED Message-Id: <20160715153554.f9d12360e31441b720d6a6b1@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20160715104605.GO9806@techsingularity.net> References: <1467970510-21195-1-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> <1467970510-21195-19-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net> <20160712145801.GJ5881@cmpxchg.org> <20160713085516.GI9806@techsingularity.net> <20160713130415.GB9905@cmpxchg.org> <20160713133701.GK9806@techsingularity.net> <20160713141343.244c108e48086055f57b1d79@linux-foundation.org> <20160715104605.GO9806@techsingularity.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Mel Gorman Cc: Johannes Weiner , Linux-MM , Rik van Riel , Vlastimil Babka , Minchan Kim , Joonsoo Kim , LKML On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:46:05 +0100 Mel Gorman 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 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org