linux-kernel - Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:15:34 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
CC:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Izik Eidus <izike@...ranet.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	steiner@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	daniel.blueman@...drics.com, holt@....com,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1

Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> The remote page fault
>   

As we have two names for this ('shadow' and 'remote/export') I'd like to 
suggest a neutral nomenclature.  How about 'secondary mmu' (and 
secondary ptes (sptes), etc.)?  I think this fits xpmem, kvm, rdma, and dri.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

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