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

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Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 22:35:40 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        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 8/24/21 9:35 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
>> Sure, but at the time Jeff Bonwick chose it, it had no meaning in
>> computer science or operating system design.  Whatever name is chosen,
>> we'll get used to it.  I don't even care what name it is.
>>
>> I want "short" because it ends up used everywhere.  I don't want to
>> be typing
>> 	lock_hippopotamus(hippopotamus);
>>
>> and I want greppable so it's not confused with something somebody else
>> has already used as an identifier.
> 
> Can you live with pageset?

Pagesets already exist in the page allocator internals. Yeah, could be
renamed as it's not visible outside.

> David
> 
>