From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:08:50 -0700 References: <1189457286.21778.68.camel@twins> <20071026174409.GA1573@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20071026174409.GA1573@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710271608.50973.phillips@phunq.net> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Pavel Machek Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dkegel@google.com, David Miller , Nick Piggin List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org