Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756392AbYAXPTT (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:19:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756101AbYAXPSq (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:18:46 -0500 Received: from bzq-179-150-194.static.bezeqint.net ([212.179.150.194]:35392 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756085AbYAXPSp (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:18:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4798AC4E.4060307@qumranet.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:18:38 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Arcangeli CC: Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , linux-mm@kvack.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, holt@sgi.com, Hugh Dickins , Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1 References: <20080117193252.GC24131@v2.random> <20080121125204.GJ6970@v2.random> <4795F9D2.1050503@qumranet.com> <20080122144332.GE7331@v2.random> <20080122200858.GB15848@v2.random> <20080122223139.GD15848@v2.random> <20080123114136.GE15848@v2.random> <20080124143454.GN7141@v2.random> <4798AB96.4000408@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <4798AB96.4000408@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 24 Avi Kivity wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >> The remote page fault >> >> > > As we have two names for this ('shadow' and 'remote/export') I'd like to > suggest a neutral nomenclature. How about 'secondary mmu' (and > secondary ptes (sptes), etc.)? I think this fits xpmem, kvm, rdma, and dri. > > Er, it was Robin who came up with this first, I see. Let's just say I second the motion. -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- 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/