On 8/24/21 10:35 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > 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. Should have read the rest of thread before replying. Maybe in the spirit of the discussion we could call it pageshed? /me hides >> David >> >> > >
