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Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <1957060.1629820467@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <1966106.1629832273@warthog.procyon.org.uk> To: Linus Torvalds Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Matthew Wilcox , Johannes Weiner , Linux-MM , linux-fsdevel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Memory folios for v5.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1968459.1629835187.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 20:59:47 +0100 Message-ID: <1968460.1629835187@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 Authentication-Results: imf27.hostedemail.com; dkim=pass header.d=redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=dc6f1JuM; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=redhat.com; spf=none (imf27.hostedemail.com: domain of dhowells@redhat.com has no SPF policy when checking 170.10.133.124) smtp.mailfrom=dhowells@redhat.com X-Rspamd-Server: rspam03 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6674E70000A2 X-Stat-Signature: 7so1d9grh7fmzxrmgf84gwuwy19169sa X-HE-Tag: 1629835194-63222 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Something like "page_group" or "pageset" sound reasonable to me as type > > names. > > "pageset" is such a great name that we already use it, so I guess that > doesn't work. Heh. I tried grepping for "struct page_set" and that showed nothing. Maybe "pagegroup"? Here's a bunch of possible alternatives to set/group: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Thesaurus:group Maybe consider it a sequence of pages, "struct pageseq"? page_aggregate sounds like a possibility, but it's quite long. Though from an fs point of view, I'd be okay hiding the fact that pages are involved. It's a buffer; a chunk of memory or chunk of pagecache with metadata - maybe something on that theme? David