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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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On 8/24/21 10:35 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 8/24/21 9:35 PM, David Howells wrote:
>> Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Sure, but at the time Jeff Bonwick chose it, it had no meaning in
>>> computer science or operating system design.  Whatever name is chosen,
>>> we'll get used to it.  I don't even care what name it is.
>>>
>>> I want "short" because it ends up used everywhere.  I don't want to
>>> be typing
>>> 	lock_hippopotamus(hippopotamus);
>>>
>>> and I want greppable so it's not confused with something somebody else
>>> has already used as an identifier.
>>
>> Can you live with pageset?
> 
> Pagesets already exist in the page allocator internals. Yeah, could be
> renamed as it's not visible outside.

Should have read the rest of thread before replying.

Maybe in the spirit of the discussion we could call it pageshed?

/me hides

>> David
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