Re: [PATCH 3/6] ksm: change the KSM_REMOVE_MEMORY_REGION ioctl.

Hugh Dickins
2009-05-06T16:44:34Z

On Wed, 6 May 2009, Izik Eidus wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:16:52PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> >
> > > p.s. I wish you'd chosen different name than KSM - the kernel
> > > has supported shared memory for many years - and notice ksm.c itself
> > > says "Memory merging driver". "Merge" would indeed have been a less
> > > ambiguous term than "Share", but I think too late to change that now
> > > - except possibly in the MADV_ flag names?
> > >
> >
> > I don't actually care about names, so I leave this to other to discuss.
> >
> Well, There is no real problem changing the name, any suggestions?

mm/merge.c or mm/mmerge.c: the module formerly known as KSM ?

Hugh