From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, dkegel@google.com,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC)
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:08:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710271608.50973.phillips@phunq.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071026174409.GA1573@elf.ucw.cz>
On Friday 26 October 2007 10:44, Peter wrote:
> > ...the way the watermarks work they will be evenly distributed
> > over the appropriate zones. ..
Hi Peter,
The term is "highwater mark" not "high watermark". A watermark is an
anti-counterfeiting device printed on paper money. "Highwater" is how
high water gets, which I believe is the sense we intend in Linux.
Therefore any occurrence of "watermark" in the kernel source is a
spelling mistake, unless it has something to do with printing paper
money.
While fixing this entrenched terminology abuse in our kernel source may
be difficult, sticking to the correct English on lkml is quite easy :-)
Regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-14 14:21 [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC) Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 14:21 ` [RFC 1/3] Allow reclaim via __GFP_NOMEMALLOC reclaim Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 14:21 ` [RFC 2/3] Use NOMEMALLOC reclaim to allow reclaim if PF_MEMALLOC is set Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 14:21 ` [RFC 3/3] Test code for PF_MEMALLOC reclaim Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 14:36 ` [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC) Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-14 15:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-14 19:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-14 19:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-15 12:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-15 13:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-15 14:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-15 13:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-15 14:34 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-15 20:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-15 20:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-16 3:29 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-16 20:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-20 3:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-20 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-21 0:32 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-21 0:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-08-21 15:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-08-23 3:02 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-12 22:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-05 9:20 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-09-05 10:42 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-05 11:42 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-05 12:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-05 12:19 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-10 19:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-10 19:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-10 19:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-10 19:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-10 20:17 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-10 20:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 7:41 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-12 10:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-12 22:47 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 8:19 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-13 18:32 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-13 19:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-05 16:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-09-08 5:12 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-09-18 0:28 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-09-18 3:27 ` Mike Snitzer
[not found] ` <200709172211.26493.phillips@phunq.net>
2007-09-18 8:11 ` Wouter Verhelst
2007-09-18 9:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-18 16:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-09-18 19:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-18 9:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-18 18:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-09-18 20:13 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-09-10 19:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-10 19:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-10 20:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-09-10 20:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-26 17:44 ` Pavel Machek
2007-10-26 17:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-10-27 22:58 ` Daniel Phillips
2007-10-27 23:08 ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
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