linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1 of 6] hotplug-memory: refactor online_pages to separate zone growth from page onlining

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Date:	Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:33:06 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 6] hotplug-memory: refactor online_pages to
	separate zone growth from page onlining

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 18:20 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Last time I posted this patch you complained about my name 
> "online_pages_zone", suggesting "grow_zone_span".  Since that already 
> existed, I took that as a hint to fold the two functions together.  Is 
> that not what you meant?

I'm obviously a doofus for suggesting a name that already existed. :)

You probably just want a name that lets the caller know that you're
growing both the pgdats and the zones somehow.  

-- Dave

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