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Subject: Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 2/7] UBC: core (structures, API)
From: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:35 +0400, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:31:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:53:40 +0400
> > Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> wrote:
> > 
> > > >>+struct user_beancounter
> > > >>+{
> > > >>+	atomic_t		ub_refcount;
> > > >>+	spinlock_t		ub_lock;
> > > >>+	uid_t			ub_uid;
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Why uid?  Will it be possible to club processes belonging to different
> > > > users to same bean counter.
> > > oh, its a misname. Should be ub_id. it is ID of user_beancounter
> > > and has nothing to do with user id.
> > 
> > But it uses a uid_t.  That's more than a misnaming?
> 
> It used to be uid-related in ancient times when the notion of container
> hadn't formed up.
> "user" part of user_beancounter name has the same origin :)

Is it similarly irrelevant now? If so perhaps a big rename could be used
to make the names clearer (s/user_//, s/ub_/bc_/, ...).

<snip>

Cheers,
	-Matt Helsley

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