From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:42:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC] Convert pgtable cache to slab Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Tony" = Luck, Tony writes: >>> Perhaps "zero_cache" isn't as descriptive a name as it might be >>> (not that I have any better suggestions :-( >> Maybe pgtable_zero_cache or something? Tony> I thought along those lines at first, but actually this cache Tony> would be useful for any allocation that needed a page that has Tony> been pre-zeroed. So I don't think that the "pgtable" part is Tony> helpful. Some sense of the fact that the objects are one page Tony> big is what I was looking for. Yeah. I suspect that's why Bill named it that in the first place. What about zeroed_page_cache? Now, this opens up another can of worms in terms of where to initialize that cache in the first place. pgtable_cache_init() might not be the best place if it's generally used. Only requirement is that it needs to be early. -- Martin K. Petersen Silicon Graphics, Inc. mkp@sgi.com http://www.sgi.com/