Re: [PATCHSET v6 0/12] Uncached buffered IO

Jens Axboe
2024-12-03T22:41:55Z

On 12/3/24 3:16 PM, Christoph Lameter (Ampere) wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2024, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
>> I actually did consider using some form of temporal, as it's the only
>> other name I liked. But I do think cached_uncached becomes pretty
>> unwieldy. Which is why I just stuck with uncached. Yes I know it means
>> different things in different circles, but probably mostly an overlap
>> with deeper technical things like that. An honestly almost impossible to
>> avoid overlap these days, everything has been used already :-)
>>
>> IOW, I think uncached is probably still the most descriptive thing out
>> there, even if I'm certainly open to entertaining other names. Just not
>> anything yet that has really resonated with me.
>
> How about calling this a "transitory" page? It means fleeting, not
> persistent and I think we have not used that term with a page/folio yet.

I also hit the thesaurus ;-)

I'm honestly not too worried about the internal name, as developers can
figure that out. It's more about presenting an external name that sys
developers will not need a lot of explaining to know what it's about.
And something that isn't too long. BRIEFLY_CACHED? TRANSIENT_CACHE?

Dunno, I keep going back to uncached as it's pretty easy to grok!

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Jens Axboe