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Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:44:28 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com>, menage@...gle.com, balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, guijianfeng@...fujitsu.com, agk@...rceware.org, axboe@...nel.dk, baramsori72@...il.com, chlunde@...g.uio.no, dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, dpshah@...gle.com, eric.rannaud@...il.com, fernando@....ntt.co.jp, taka@...inux.co.jp, lizf@...fujitsu.com, matt@...ehost.com, dradford@...ehost.com, ngupta@...gle.com, randy.dunlap@...cle.com, roberto@...it.it, ryov@...inux.co.jp, s-uchida@...jp.nec.com, subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, yoshikawa.takuya@....ntt.co.jp, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] bio-cgroup controller On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:20:40 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:29:37 -0700 > Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:21:14 +0200 > > Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com> wrote: > > > > > Subject: [PATCH 3/9] bio-cgroup controller > > > > Sorry, but I have to register extreme distress at the name of this. > > The term "bio" is well-established in the kernel and here we have a new > > definition for the same term: "block I/O". > > > > "bio" was a fine term for you to have chosen from the user's > > perspective, but from the kernel developer perspective it is quite > > horrid. The patch adds a vast number of new symbols all into the > > existing "bio_" namespace, many of which aren't related to `struct bio' > > at all. > > > > At least, I think that's what's happening. Perhaps the controller > > really _is_ designed to track `struct bio'? If so, that's an odd thing > > to tell userspace about. > > > Hmm, how about iotrack-cgroup ? > Well. blockio_cgroup has the same character count and is more specific. -- 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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