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Date:   Sat, 8 Sep 2018 13:56:13 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: + mm-slab-shorten-kmalloc-cache-names-for-large-sizes.patch
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On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 09:10:46AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 09/08/2018 08:54 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 10:03:06AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 10:58:16PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >>> I'd rather use KB and MB suffixes or at least capital 'K'.
> >> I like k and M better.
> > k and M work for me too.  It we were going to be anal then we should
> > go with the IEC standard of KiB and MiB, but we're trying to make
> 
> But                           ^K and  ^M.
> 
> Small 'k' .. I don't know what that is.

SI uses 'k' for kilo and 'K' for Kelvin.  It's an anomaly because all
the other magnifying prefixes use capital letters, but it's km, not Km;
kg, kV, kJ, kN, kW and kΩ.