Re: [PATCH 00/40] Memory allocation profiling

Kent Overstreet
2023-05-07T22:17:44Z

On Sun, May 07, 2023 at 06:09:11PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Sun, 7 May 2023 17:53:09 -0400
> Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> > The underscore is a legitimate complaint - I brought this up in
> > development, not sure why it got lost. We'll do something better with a
> > consistent suffix, perhaps kmem_cache_alloc_noacct().
>
> Would "_noprofile()" be a better name. I'm not sure what "acct" means.

account - but _noprofile() is probably better. Didn't suggest it at
first because of an association in my head with CPU profiling, but
considering we already renamed the feature to memory allocation
profiling... :)