On 8/24/21 9:35 PM, David Howells wrote: > Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? Pagesets already exist in the page allocator internals. Yeah, could be renamed as it's not visible outside. > David > >
