From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com>,
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] mm: Fold page->_last_nid into page->flags where possible
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:56:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130123135612.4b383fa7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130123142507.GI13304@suse.de>
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:25:07 +0000
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:46:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > reset_page_last_nid() is poorly named. page_reset_last_nid() would be
> > better, and consistent.
> >
>
> Look at this closer, are you sure you want? Why is page_reset_last_nid()
> better or more consistent?
I was looking at this group:
static inline int page_xchg_last_nid(struct page *page, int nid)
static inline int page_last_nid(struct page *page)
static inline void reset_page_last_nid(struct page *page)
IMO the best naming for these would be page_nid_xchg_last(),
page_nid_last() and page_nid_reset_last().
> The getter functions for page-related fields start with page (page_count,
> page_mapcount etc.) but the setters begin with set (set_page_section,
> set_page_zone, set_page_links etc.). For mapcount, we also have
> reset_page_mapcount() so to me reset_page_last_nid() is already
> consistent.
But those schemes make no sense.
I don't see any benefit in being consistent with existing
inconsistency. It's better to use good naming for new things and to
fix up the old things where practical.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-23 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-22 17:12 [PATCH 0/6] Follow up work on NUMA Balancing Mel Gorman
2013-01-22 17:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: numa: Fix minor typo in numa_next_scan Mel Gorman
2013-01-22 17:12 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: numa: Take THP into account when migrating pages for NUMA balancing Mel Gorman
2013-01-22 17:12 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: numa: Handle side-effects in count_vm_numa_events() for !CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING Mel Gorman
2013-01-22 22:40 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-23 9:27 ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-22 17:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm: Move page flags layout to separate header Mel Gorman
2013-01-22 17:12 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: Fold page->_last_nid into page->flags where possible Mel Gorman
2013-01-22 22:46 ` Andrew Morton
2013-01-23 13:17 ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-23 21:45 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2013-01-23 13:18 ` [PATCH] mm: init: Report on last-nid information stored in page->flags Mel Gorman
2013-01-23 14:25 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm: Fold page->_last_nid into page->flags where possible Mel Gorman
2013-01-23 21:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-01-24 10:55 ` [PATCH] mm: Rename page struct field helpers Mel Gorman
2013-01-29 4:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-30 11:58 ` Mel Gorman
2013-01-30 20:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2013-01-23 15:23 ` [PATCH] mm: uninline page_xchg_last_nid() Mel Gorman
2013-01-22 17:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: numa: Cleanup flow of transhuge page migration Mel Gorman
2013-01-27 21:20 ` Hugh Dickins
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