linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgRdqtpsbHkKeqpRWUsuJwsfewCL4SZN2udXVgExFZOWw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:29:53 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 11:26 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> If anything, I'd make things more explicit. Stupid and
> straightforward. Maybe just "struct head_page" or something like that.
> Name it by what it *is*, not by analogies.

Btw, just to clarify: I don't love "struct head_page" either. It looks
clunky. But at least something like that would be a _straightforward_
clunky name.

Something like just "struct pages" would be less clunky, would still
get the message across, but gets a bit too visually similar.

Naming is hard.

             Linus