From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, device@lanana.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl.
Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 19:59:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A01C207.3050504@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090506164945.GD15712@x200.localdomain>
Chris Wright wrote:
> * Hugh Dickins (hugh@veritas.com) wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Izik Eidus wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>> mm/merge.c or mm/mmerge.c: the module formerly known as KSM ?
>>
>
> I like merge.
Sold !.
>
> thanks,
> -chris
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-06 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 22:25 [PATCH 0/6] ksm changes (v2) Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25 ` [PATCH 1/6] ksm: limiting the num of mem regions user can register per fd Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25 ` [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25 ` [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25 ` [PATCH 4/6] ksm: change the prot handling to use the generic helper functions Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25 ` [PATCH 5/6] ksm: build system make it compile for all archs Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 22:25 ` [PATCH 6/6] ksm: use another miscdevice minor number Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 0:55 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-06 0:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] ksm: build system make it compile for all archs Rik van Riel
2009-05-06 0:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] ksm: change the prot handling to use the generic helper functions Rik van Riel
2009-05-06 0:53 ` [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl Rik van Riel
2009-05-06 8:38 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 11:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 13:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 13:56 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 16:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 16:49 ` Chris Wright
2009-05-06 16:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 17:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 16:59 ` Izik Eidus [this message]
2009-05-07 11:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-07 13:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-07 13:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 14:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 14:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 15:36 ` Chris Wright
2009-05-06 15:27 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 16:14 ` Chris Wright
2009-05-06 16:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 17:09 ` Chris Wright
2009-05-06 17:54 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 16:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 16:58 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 23:59 ` Chris Wright
2009-05-07 2:41 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-06 0:43 ` [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations Rik van Riel
2009-05-06 9:46 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 12:26 ` Rik van Riel
2009-05-06 12:39 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 13:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 13:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 14:02 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 17:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 14:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 14:21 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-06 14:46 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06 14:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-06 23:55 ` Minchan Kim
2009-05-07 0:19 ` Chris Wright
2009-05-07 10:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-05-07 12:01 ` Minchan Kim
2009-05-06 14:57 ` Izik Eidus
2009-05-06 0:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] ksm: limiting the num of mem regions user can register per fd Rik van Riel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-02 22:16 [PATCH 0/6] ksm changes Izik Eidus
2009-05-02 22:16 ` [PATCH 1/6] ksm: limiting the num of mem regions user can register per fd Izik Eidus
2009-05-02 22:16 ` [PATCH 2/6] ksm: dont allow overlap memory addresses registrations Izik Eidus
2009-05-02 22:16 ` [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl Izik Eidus
2009-05-04 19:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-04 20:37 ` Izik Eidus
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