linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 08/11] drm/shmem-helper: Add memory shrinker

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Date:   Mon, 27 Feb 2023 07:34:48 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>
To:     Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
        Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@...hat.com>,
        Gurchetan Singh <gurchetansingh@...omium.org>,
        Chia-I Wu <olvaffe@...il.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Daniel Almeida <daniel.almeida@...labora.com>,
        Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.com>,
        Daniel Stone <daniel@...ishbar.org>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
        Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Qiang Yu <yuq825@...il.com>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa.rosenzweig@...labora.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>,
        Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
        Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@...cinc.com>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...labora.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 08/11] drm/shmem-helper: Add memory shrinker

On 2/17/23 16:19, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> +/**
>> + * drm_gem_shmem_swap_in() - Moves shmem GEM back to memory and enables
>> + *                           hardware access to the memory.
> 
> Do we have a better name than _swap_in()? I suggest
> drm_gem_shmem_unevict(), which suggest that it's the inverse to _evict().

The canonical naming scheme used by TTM and other DRM drivers is
_swapin(), without the underscore. I'll use that variant in v11 for the
naming consistency with the rest of DRM code.

-- 
Best regards,
Dmitry