From: Jean-Philippe Brucker
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 3:55 AM

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  API naming
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I realize that "SVM" as a name isn't great because the svm namespace is
already taken by AMD-V (Secure Virtual Machine) in arch/x86. Also, the
name itself doesn't say much.

I personally prefer "Unified Virtual Addressing" (UVA), adopted by CUDA,
or rather Unified Virtual Address Space (UVAS). Another possibility is
Unified Virtual Memory (UVM). Acronym UAS for Unified Address Space is
already used by USB. Same for Shared Address Space (SAS), already in use
in the kernel, but SVAS would work (although it doesn't look good).

'unified' is not exactly matching to 'shared'. In some context it means
unifying device local memory and system memory in one virtual address
space, while SVM is more for sharing of a CPU virtual address space with 
device.

What about Shared Virtual Addressing (SVA)?

Thanks
Kevin