Re: + vmscan-rename-functions.patch added to -mm tree

[Peter Zijlstra <peter@programming.kicks-ass.net>]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:35 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:09 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> >>shrink_zone and do_shrink_zone don't really say any more to me than
> >>shrink_zone and shrink_cache.
> > 
> > 
> > I know not everybody believes in a plugable reclaim policy, but that is
> > what I'm building. And from that POV I'd rather not see the
> > active/inactive names get used here.
> > 
> 
> active/inactive is what we have now. If you manage to get a pluggable
> reclaim policy merged then I assure you, renaming these yet again will
> be the least of your worries :)

True indeed.

> > My vote goes to Coywolf's suggestion.
> > 
> 
> What was that?

Hmm, seems like I shouldn't read email before waking up, apparently I
got the quoting levels mixed up.

Anyway, this one:

>>        try_to_free_pages
>>        ->shrink_zones(struct zone **zones, ..)
>>          ->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
>>            ->do_shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
>>              ->shrink_page_list(struct list_head *, ...)