linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator

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Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:27:57 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	ngupta@...are.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-mm-cc@...top.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Nitin Gupta<ngupta@...are.org> wrote:
>> Is the name rzmalloc() too similar to kzalloc() which stands for
>> zeroing allocator, though? I think I suggested
>> ramzswap_alloc()/ramzswap_free() in the past to avoid confusion. I'd
>> rather go with that if we can't come up with a nice generic name that
>> stands for alloc_part_of_page_including_highmem().
>
> rzs_malloc()/rzs_free() ?

I am not sure what we gain from the shorter and more cryptic "rzs"
prefix compared to "ramzswap" but yeah, it's less likely to be
confused with kzalloc() so I'm okay with that.
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