Thread (161 messages) 161 messages, 27 authors, 2021-10-25

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

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: 2021-08-24 19:35:58
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

Matthew Wilcox [off-list ref] 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?

David

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