Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751430AbWE0HBm (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 03:01:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751431AbWE0HBm (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 03:01:42 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:59616 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751430AbWE0HBl (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 May 2006 03:01:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:58 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Wu Fengguang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/33] readahead: state based method - aging accounting Message-Id: <20060527000058.70e84318.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <348710943.27498@ustc.edu.cn> References: <20060524111246.420010595@localhost.localdomain> <348469542.24469@ustc.edu.cn> <20060526100426.2faf1367.akpm@osdl.org> <348710943.27498@ustc.edu.cn> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-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: 543 Lines: 13 Wu Fengguang wrote: > > > Is this function well-named? Why does it have "cold" in the name? > > Because it only sums `nr_inactive', leaving out `nr_active'. We use the term "cold" to refer to probably-cache-cold pages in the page allocator. How about you use "inactive"? - 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/