From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFA2A6B0093 for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 09:56:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A019719.7030504@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:56:41 +0300 From: Izik Eidus MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl. References: <1241475935-21162-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1241475935-21162-2-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1241475935-21162-3-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <1241475935-21162-4-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com> <4A00DF9B.1080501@redhat.com> <4A014C7B.9080702@redhat.com> <20090506133434.GX16078@random.random> In-Reply-To: <20090506133434.GX16078@random.random> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hugh Dickins , Rik van Riel , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chrisw@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, device@lanana.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au List-ID: Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:16:52PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > >> p.s. I wish you'd chosen different name than KSM - the kernel >> has supported shared memory for many years - and notice ksm.c itself >> says "Memory merging driver". "Merge" would indeed have been a less >> ambiguous term than "Share", but I think too late to change that now >> - except possibly in the MADV_ flag names? >> > > I don't actually care about names, so I leave this to other to discuss. > Well, There is no real problem changing the name, any suggestions? -- 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