On 12/3/24 3:16 PM, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2024, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> I actually did consider using some form of temporal, as it's the only >> other name I liked. But I do think cached_uncached becomes pretty >> unwieldy. Which is why I just stuck with uncached. Yes I know it means >> different things in different circles, but probably mostly an overlap >> with deeper technical things like that. An honestly almost impossible to >> avoid overlap these days, everything has been used already :-) >> >> IOW, I think uncached is probably still the most descriptive thing out >> there, even if I'm certainly open to entertaining other names. Just not >> anything yet that has really resonated with me. > > How about calling this a "transitory" page? It means fleeting, not > persistent and I think we have not used that term with a page/folio yet. I also hit the thesaurus ;-) I'm honestly not too worried about the internal name, as developers can figure that out. It's more about presenting an external name that sys developers will not need a lot of explaining to know what it's about. And something that isn't too long. BRIEFLY_CACHED? TRANSIENT_CACHE? Dunno, I keep going back to uncached as it's pretty easy to grok! -- Jens Axboe
