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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:56:08 +0400
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
To:	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	<mhocko@...e.cz>, <hannes@...xchg.org>, <glommer@...il.com>,
	<cl@...ux-foundation.org>, <penberg@...nel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<devel@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/6] memcg/kmem: cleanup naming and callflows

Please ignore this set - I found that something can be improved, will
send v2 soon. Sorry for the noise.

Thanks.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 04:33:06PM +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In reply to "[PATCH RFC -mm v2 3/3] memcg, slab: simplify
> synchronization scheme" Johannes wrote:
> 
> > I like this patch, but the API names are confusing. Could we fix up
> > that whole thing by any chance?
> 
> (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/18/317)
> 
> So this patch set is about cleaning up memcg/kmem naming.
> 
> While preparing it I found that some of the ugly-named functions
> constituting interface between memcontrol.c and slab_common.c can be
> neatly got rid of w/o complicating the code. Quite the contrary, w/o
> them call-flows look much simpler, IMO. So the first four patches do not
> rename anything actually - they just rework call-flows in kmem cache
> creation/destruction and memcg_caches arrays relocations paths. Finally,
> patches 5 and 6 clean up the naming.
> 
> Reviews are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vladimir Davydov (6):
>   memcg: get rid of memcg_create_cache_name
>   memcg: allocate memcg_caches array on first per memcg cache creation
>   memcg: cleanup memcg_caches arrays relocation path
>   memcg: get rid of memcg_{alloc,free}_cache_params
>   memcg: cleanup kmem cache creation/destruction functions naming
>   memcg: cleanup kmem_id-related naming
> 
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |   40 +----
>  include/linux/slab.h       |   12 +-
>  mm/memcontrol.c            |  420 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  mm/slab.c                  |    4 +-
>  mm/slab.h                  |   24 ++-
>  mm/slab_common.c           |  127 ++++++++++----
>  mm/slub.c                  |   10 +-
>  7 files changed, 320 insertions(+), 317 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
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