Re: [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Tue Aug 24 2021 - 16:36:25 EST


On 8/24/21 9:35 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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