Hey Oliver, On Friday 28 Oct 2022 at 08:34:48 (+0000), Oliver Upton wrote: > Perhaps it is just me, but the 'initiator' and 'completer' terms are > slightly confusing descriptors for the addresses involved in a memory > transition. Apply a rename to instead describe memory transitions in > terms of a source and target address. Just to provide some rationale for the initiator/completer terminology, the very first implementation we did of this used 'sender/recipient (or something along those lines I think), and we ended up confusing ourselves massively. The main issue is that memory doesn't necessarily 'flow' in the same direction as the transition. It's all fine for a donation or a share, but reclaim and unshare become funny. 'The recipient of an unshare' can be easily misunderstood, I think. So yeah, we ended up with initiator/completer, which may not be the prettiest terminology, but it was useful to disambiguate things at least. Thanks for the review! Quentin _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
