Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261593AbUJ0Amh (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:42:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261598AbUJ0AjZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:39:25 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:28854 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261593AbUJ0Ai5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:38:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:42:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: lowmem_reserve (replaces protection) Message-Id: <20041026174237.44ab2b23.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041027002536.GM14325@dualathlon.random> References: <20041025170128.GF14325@dualathlon.random> <20041026015825.GU14325@dualathlon.random> <417DC8F2.7000902@yahoo.com.au> <20041026040429.GW14325@dualathlon.random> <417DCFDD.50606@yahoo.com.au> <20041027002536.GM14325@dualathlon.random> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 19 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > I don't see any other equivalent teminology besides my "classzone" word > existing, I'll confess that I've never understood what "classzone" _means_. Is it "a zone from amongst several classes" or what? If it was "zone_class" then it might mean "a particular classification of zones". Maybe that's what you meant? I think a lot of other mm hackers share my confusion, which is why "classzone" has been trickling away. But yeah, we haven't been replacing it with anything very useful. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/