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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:47:17 +0800
From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + vmscan-rename-functions.patch added to -mm tree
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, christoph@lameter.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
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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.
--
Coywolf Qi Hunt
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