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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:07:13 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [patch] mm: dirty page tracking race fix On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 18:03 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2008 17:49, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 07:38 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and > > > try_to_unmap. > > > > s/synch/sync/ ? > > > > we use sync all over the kernel to mean synchonous, so why are you > > inventing a new shorthand? > > Mmm, we also use synch all over the kernel to mean synchronous, > including in mm/, so I'm not inventing a new shorthand. sync I > see is more common, but it's not something anybody would get > confused about is it? I hadn't noticed before, and my grep skillz seem to have left me in the cold git grep "\<synch\>" mm/* | wc -l 0 And you're right, its not something one can get confused about. So lets just keep it unless someone else objects ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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