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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Rename prepare_vmcs02_*_full to prepare_vmcs02_*_extra
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 09:04:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190607160422.GE9083@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5762005d-1504-bb41-9583-ec549e107ce5@redhat.com>

On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 05:17:09PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/06/19 16:18, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 02:19:20PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> On 06/06/19 20:41, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >>>> +static void prepare_vmcs02_early_extra(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx,
> >>> Or maybe 'uncommon', 'rare' or 'ext'?  I don't I particularly love any of
> >>> the names, but they're all better than 'full'.
> >>
> >> I thought 'ext' was short for 'extra'? :)
> > 
> > Ha, I (obviously) didn't make that connection.  ext == extended in my mind.
> 
> That's what came to mind first, but then "extended" had the same issue
> as "full" (i.e. encompassing the "basic" set as well) so I decided you
> knew better!

Ah, I was thinking of "basic" and "extended" as separate states, but your
interpretation is correct.

I probably have a slight preference for 'uncommon' over 'extra'?  I feel
like they have equal odds of being misinterpreted, so pick your poison :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-07 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-06 15:24 [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Rename prepare_vmcs02_*_full to prepare_vmcs02_*_extra Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-06 18:41 ` Sean Christopherson
2019-06-06 19:19   ` Krish Sadhukhan
2019-06-06 20:19     ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-07 12:19   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-07 14:18     ` Sean Christopherson
2019-06-07 15:17       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-07 16:04         ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2019-06-07 16:24           ` Paolo Bonzini

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