linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] lib: cpu_rmap: avoid flushing all workqueues

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Message-ID: <1357158788.3652.45.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2013 20:33:08 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	David Decotigny <decot@...glers.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lib: cpu_rmap: avoid flushing all workqueues

On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 13:14 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
[...]
> > +/**
> > + * reclaim_cpu_rmap - internal reclaiming helper called from kref_put
> > + * @ref: kref to struct cpu_rmap
> > + */
> > +static void reclaim_cpu_rmap(struct kref *ref)
> 
> Could be named cpu_rmap_free()
> 
> (and alloc_cpu_rmap() should be renamed as cpu_rmap_alloc()
[...]

There are many other APIs that include alloc_foo() and free_foo().  I'm
not aware of any convention that this should be avoided in new APIs (not
that this is new any more).

Ben.

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