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Message-ID: <4A019719.7030504@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:56:41 +0300
From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@...hat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
chrisw@...hat.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, device@...ana.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl.
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:16:52PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
>
>> p.s. I wish you'd chosen different name than KSM - the kernel
>> has supported shared memory for many years - and notice ksm.c itself
>> says "Memory merging driver". "Merge" would indeed have been a less
>> ambiguous term than "Share", but I think too late to change that now
>> - except possibly in the MADV_ flag names?
>>
>
> I don't actually care about names, so I leave this to other to discuss.
>
Well, There is no real problem changing the name, any suggestions?
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