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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, christoph@lameter.com
Subject: Re: + vmscan-rename-functions.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 14:09:56 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F29B84.6020009@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cd57c900602141847m7af4ec7ap@mail.gmail.com>

Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> 2006/2/12, akpm@osdl.org <akpm@osdl.org>:
> 
>>The patch titled
>>
>>     vmscan: rename functions
>>
>>has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>>
>>     vmscan-rename-functions.patch
>>
>>See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
>>out what to do about this
>>
>>
>>From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
>>
>>We have:
>>
>>        try_to_free_pages
>>        ->shrink_caches(struct zone **zones, ..)
>>          ->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
>>            ->shrink_cache(struct zone *, ...)
>>              ->shrink_list(struct list_head *, ...)
>>
>>which is fairly irrational.
>>
>>Rename things so that we have
>>
>>        try_to_free_pages
>>        ->shrink_zones(struct zone **zones, ..)
>>          ->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
>>            ->do_shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
>>              ->shrink_page_list(struct list_head *, ...)
> 
> 
> Every time I read this part it annoys me. Thanks.

I don't much care, but if there is renaming afoot, I'd vote for

->shrink_zones(struct zone **zones, ..)
  ->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
   ->shrink_inactive_list(struct zone *, ...)
    ->shrink_page_list(struct list_head *, ...)
   ->shrink_active_list (alternatively, leave as refill_inactive_list)

shrink_zone and do_shrink_zone don't really say any more to me than
shrink_zone and shrink_cache.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200602120605.k1C65QFE028051@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-02-15  2:47 ` + vmscan-rename-functions.patch added to -mm tree Coywolf Qi Hunt
2006-02-15  3:09   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-02-15  6:46     ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-02-15  8:35       ` Nick Piggin
2006-02-15 11:59         ` Peter Zijlstra

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