From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:04:04 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Andrew Morton , Waiman Long , Alexander Viro , Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Kees Cook , Linus Torvalds , Jan Kara , Ingo Molnar , Miklos Szeredi , Larry Woodman , James Bottomley , "Wangkai (Kevin C)" , Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs/dcache: Make negative dentries easier to be reclaimed Message-ID: <20180829210404.GA2925@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <1535476780-5773-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> <1535476780-5773-3-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com> <20180828160150.9a45ee293c92708edb511eab@linux-foundation.org> <20180829175405.GA17337@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180829175405.GA17337@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:54:05AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 04:01:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > People often use the term "the foo() function". I don't know why - > > just say "foo()"! > > For whatever it is worth... > > I tend to use "The foo() function ..." instead of "foo() ..." in order > to properly capitalize the first word of the sentence. So I might say > "The call_rcu() function enqueues an RCU callback." rather than something > like "call_rcu() enqueues an RCU callback." Or I might use some other > trick to keep "call_rcu()" from being the first word of the sentence. I tend to write 'Use call_rcu() to enqueue a callback." or "When call_rcu() returns, the callback will have been enqueued".