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 19:59:54
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Something like "page_group" or "pageset" sound reasonable to me as type
names.
"pageset" is such a great name that we already use it, so I guess that
doesn't work.
Heh.  I tried grepping for "struct page_set" and that showed nothing.  Maybe
"pagegroup"?  Here's a bunch of possible alternatives to set/group:

	https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thesaurus:group

Maybe consider it a sequence of pages, "struct pageseq"?  page_aggregate
sounds like a possibility, but it's quite long.

Though from an fs point of view, I'd be okay hiding the fact that pages are
involved.  It's a buffer; a chunk of memory or chunk of pagecache with
metadata - maybe something on that theme?

David

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