linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] rename NUMA fault handling functions

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Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:15:28 -0700
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, aarcange@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] rename NUMA fault handling functions

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 17:20 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Having the function name indicate what the function is used
>> for makes the code a little easier to read.  Furthermore,
>> the fault handling code largely consists of do_...._page
>> functions.
>
> I don't much care either way, but I was thinking walken might want to
> use something similar to do WSS estimation, in which case the NUMA name
> is just as wrong.

Right now my working set estimation only uses A bits, so let's not
make that a concern here.

I think the _numa names are a bit better than _prot_none, but still a
bit confusing. I don't have any great suggestions but I think there
should at least be a comment above pte_numa() that explains what the
numa ptes are (the comment within the function doesn't qualify as it
only explains how the numa ptes are different from the ones in
PROT_NONE vmas...)

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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