* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Or is there some reason you wanted the odd flags version? If so, that > >> should be documented. > > > > What do you mean "odd"? > > It's odd because it makes no sense for non-pcid (christ, I wish Intel had just > called it "asid" instead, "pcid" always makes me react to "pci"), and I think it > would make more sense to pair up the pcid case with the invpcid rather than have > those preemption rules here. The naming is really painful, so a trivial suggestion: could we just name all the Linux side bits 'asid' or 'ctx_id' (even in x86 arch code) and only use 'PCID' nomenclature in the very lowest level code? I.e. rename pcid_live_cpus et al and most functions to the asid or ctx_id or asid naming scheme or so. That would hide most of the naming ugliness. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>