From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753306AbXJ0XJM (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:09:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751388AbXJ0XI6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:08:58 -0400 Received: from phunq.net ([64.81.85.152]:56323 "EHLO moonbase.phunq.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751390AbXJ0XI6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:08:58 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:08:50 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dkegel@google.com, David Miller , Nick Piggin References: <1189457286.21778.68.camel@twins> <20071026174409.GA1573@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20071026174409.GA1573@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200710271608.50973.phillips@phunq.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 26 October 2007 10:44, Peter wrote: > > ...the way the watermarks work they will be evenly distributed > > over the appropriate zones. .. Hi Peter, The term is "highwater mark" not "high watermark". A watermark is an anti-counterfeiting device printed on paper money. "Highwater" is how high water gets, which I believe is the sense we intend in Linux. Therefore any occurrence of "watermark" in the kernel source is a spelling mistake, unless it has something to do with printing paper money. While fixing this entrenched terminology abuse in our kernel source may be difficult, sticking to the correct English on lkml is quite easy :-) Regards, Daniel