From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:31:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111016013116.53032449.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.v3fpwyxc3l0zgt@mpn-glaptop>
On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:01:36 +0200 "Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com> wrote:
> Still, as I think of it now, maybe alloc_contig_free_range() would be
> better?
Nope. Of *course* the pages were free. Otherwise we couldn't
(re)allocate them. I still think the "free" part is redundant.
What could be improved is the "alloc" part. This really isn't an
allocation operation. The pages are being removed from buddy then
moved into the free arena of a different memory manager from where they
will _later_ be "allocated".
So we should move away from the alloc/free naming altogether for this
operation and think up new terms. How about "claim" and "release"?
claim_contig_pages, claim_contig_range, release_contig_pages, etc?
Or we could use take/return.
Also, if we have no expectation that anything apart from CMA will use
these interfaces (?), the names could/should be prefixed with "cma_".
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-16 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-06 13:54 [PATCHv16 0/9] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 1/9] mm: move some functions from memory_hotplug.c to page_isolation.c Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:23 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-18 12:05 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-16 8:01 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-16 8:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-10-16 9:39 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-17 12:21 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-17 18:39 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-18 12:21 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-18 17:26 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-18 17:48 ` Dave Hansen
2011-10-18 18:00 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-21 10:06 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-24 1:00 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-24 4:05 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-24 4:05 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-24 4:05 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-24 4:05 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-01 15:04 ` Mel Gorman
2011-11-01 18:06 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-01 18:47 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 3/9] mm: alloc_contig_range() added Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-18 12:38 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 4/9] mm: MIGRATE_CMA migration type added Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:38 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-18 13:08 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-24 19:32 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-27 9:10 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 5/9] mm: MIGRATE_CMA isolation functions added Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 6/9] drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 23:57 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-16 10:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-10-18 13:43 ` Mel Gorman
2011-10-24 19:39 ` Michal Nazarewicz
2011-11-04 10:41 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 7/7] ARM: integrate CMA with DMA-mapping subsystem Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 14:18 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-15 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 7/9] X86: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 8/9] ARM: " Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-14 4:33 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Subash Patel
2011-10-14 9:14 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-06 13:54 ` [PATCH 9/9] ARM: Samsung: use CMA for 2 memory banks for s5p-mfc device Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-07 16:27 ` [PATCHv16 0/9] Contiguous Memory Allocator Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-10 6:58 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Ohad Ben-Cohen
2011-10-10 12:02 ` Clark, Rob
2011-10-10 22:56 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-11 6:57 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-11 13:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-14 23:19 ` Andrew Morton
2011-10-15 14:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-10 12:07 ` [Linaro-mm-sig] " Maxime Coquelin
2011-10-11 7:17 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-11 7:30 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-10-11 10:50 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-11 11:25 ` Maxime Coquelin
2011-10-11 13:05 ` Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-12 11:08 ` [PATCH] fixup: mm: alloc_contig_range: increase min_free_kbytes during allocation Marek Szyprowski
2011-10-12 13:01 ` Maxime Coquelin
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2011-08-12 10:58 [PATCHv14 0/9] Contiguous Memory Allocator Marek Szyprowski
2011-08-12 10:58 ` [PATCH 2/9] mm: alloc_contig_freed_pages() added Marek Szyprowski
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