From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Simon.Derr@bull.net, clameter@sgi.com, rohit.seth@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/05] mm rationalize __alloc_pages ALLOC_* flag names
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:18:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051115011832.712d03c8.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4379A399.1080407@yahoo.com.au>
Nick wrote:
> the downside is that they move away
> from the terminlogy we've been using in the page allocator
> for the past few years.
I was trying to make the names more readable for the rest of us ;).
In the short term, there is seldom a reason to change names,
as it impacts the current experts more than it helps others.
Over a sufficiently long term, everyone is an 'other'. Most
of the people who will have reason to want to understand this
code over the next five years are not experts in it now.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> 1.925.600.0401
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-15 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-14 4:03 [PATCH 01/05] mm fix __alloc_pages cpuset ALLOC_* flags Paul Jackson
2005-11-14 4:03 ` [PATCH 02/05] mm simplify " Paul Jackson
2005-11-14 4:03 ` [PATCH 03/05] mm rationalize __alloc_pages ALLOC_* flag names Paul Jackson
2005-11-15 9:00 ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-15 9:03 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15 9:55 ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-15 19:20 ` Paul Jackson
2005-11-15 9:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-15 9:18 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-11-14 4:04 ` [PATCH 04/05] mm simplify __alloc_pages cpuset hardwall logic Paul Jackson
2005-11-14 4:04 ` [PATCH 05/05] mm GFP_ATOMIC comment Paul Jackson
2005-11-15 8:52 ` [PATCH 01/05] mm fix __alloc_pages cpuset ALLOC_* flags Nick Piggin
2005-11-15 9:50 ` Paul Jackson
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