From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70B316B006A for ; Wed, 6 May 2009 13:00:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A01C207.3050504@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 19:59:51 +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> <4A019719.7030504@redhat.com> <20090506164945.GD15712@x200.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20090506164945.GD15712@x200.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Chris Wright Cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , 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 List-ID: 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 > -- 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