From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lowmem_reserve (replaces protection)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:48:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041027004836.GN14325@dualathlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041026174237.44ab2b23.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:42:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't see any other equivalent teminology besides my "classzone" word
> > existing,
>
> I'll confess that I've never understood what "classzone" _means_. Is it "a
> zone from amongst several classes" or what?
>
> If it was "zone_class" then it might mean "a particular classification of
> zones". Maybe that's what you meant?
>
> I think a lot of other mm hackers share my confusion, which is why
> "classzone" has been trickling away. But yeah, we haven't been replacing it
> with anything very useful.
it's very easy to explain it now that you spontanously used that concept
in 2.6: classzone is the piece of ram represented by what you previously
called alloc_type in 2.6.9 mainline alloc_pages function. You wrote that
code so you know what it means. If you prefer to still call that
alloc_type that's fine with me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-27 0:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-25 17:01 lowmem_reserve (replaces protection) Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26 1:48 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-26 1:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26 3:48 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-26 4:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-26 4:17 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 0:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 0:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27 0:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2004-10-27 2:06 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-28 0:26 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 0:31 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27 0:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 0:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 1:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27 2:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 2:56 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 1:00 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27 1:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 2:05 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 2:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 3:01 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 3:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 3:34 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 3:43 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27 4:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 4:51 ` Rik van Riel
2004-10-27 5:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-27 5:50 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-27 5:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-27 6:11 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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