linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: rename reclaim_pages() to reclaim

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Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:51:01 +0800
From:   Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: rename reclaim_pages() to reclaim_folios()



On 2023/4/16 0:04, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 05:27:16PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>> As commit a83f0551f496 ("mm/vmscan: convert reclaim_pages() to use
>> a folio") changes the arg from page_list to folio_list, but not
>> the defination, let's correct it and rename it to reclaim_folios too.
> 
> I didn't bother.  It's not inaccurate; we're reclaiming the pages
> in the folios.

OK, keep the name seems better, there is another similar issue in
reclaim_clean_pages_from_list(), I will only unify the arg between
definition and declaration.>