From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [patch] mm: dirty page tracking race fix From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <200808181803.57730.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> References: <20080818053821.GA3011@wotan.suse.de> <1219045746.10800.261.camel@twins> <200808181803.57730.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:07:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1219046833.10800.270.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Nick Piggin Cc: Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List , Linus Torvalds List-ID: On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 18:03 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2008 17:49, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 07:38 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and > > > try_to_unmap. > > > > s/synch/sync/ ? > > > > we use sync all over the kernel to mean synchonous, so why are you > > inventing a new shorthand? > > Mmm, we also use synch all over the kernel to mean synchronous, > including in mm/, so I'm not inventing a new shorthand. sync I > see is more common, but it's not something anybody would get > confused about is it? I hadn't noticed before, and my grep skillz seem to have left me in the cold git grep "\" mm/* | wc -l 0 And you're right, its not something one can get confused about. So lets just keep it unless someone else objects ;-) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org