From: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
To: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, ak@suse.de,
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] NUMA: introduce node_memory_map
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:36:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070612213612.GH3798@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.99.0706121409170.5104@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
On 12.06.2007 [14:10:44 -0700], David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, David Rientjes wrote:
> >
> > > > * int node_online(node) Is some node online?
> > > > * int node_possible(node) Is some node possible?
> > > > + * int node_memory(node) Does a node have memory?
> > > > *
> > >
> > > This name doesn't make sense; wouldn't node_has_memory() be better?
> >
> > node_set_has_memory and node_clear_has_memory sounds a bit strange.
> >
>
> This will probably be one of those things that people see in the
> source and have to look up everytime. node_has_memory() is
> straight-forward and to the point.
Indeed, I did and (I like to think) I helped write the patches :)
Why not just make the boolean sensible?
We can keep
node_set_memory()
node_clear_memory()
but change node_memory() to node_has_memory() ?
Thanks,
Nish
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-12 20:48 [patch 0/3] Fixes for NUMA allocations on memoryless nodes clameter
2007-06-12 20:48 ` [patch 1/3] NUMA: introduce node_memory_map clameter
2007-06-12 21:03 ` David Rientjes
2007-06-12 21:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 21:10 ` David Rientjes
2007-06-12 21:27 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 21:34 ` David Rientjes
2007-06-12 21:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 21:38 ` David Rientjes
2007-06-12 21:36 ` Nishanth Aravamudan [this message]
2007-06-12 21:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 21:42 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-12 21:45 ` David Rientjes
2007-06-12 22:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 22:32 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-13 9:14 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-12 20:48 ` [patch 2/3] Fix GFP_THISNODE behavior for memoryless nodes clameter
2007-06-12 21:03 ` David Rientjes
2007-06-12 21:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 21:08 ` David Rientjes
2007-06-12 21:25 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-12 21:34 ` David Rientjes
2007-06-12 21:51 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-13 21:10 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-13 21:57 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-13 22:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-13 23:11 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-13 23:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-13 23:20 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-13 23:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-13 23:32 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-13 23:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 0:04 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-14 14:18 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-14 14:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 14:55 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-06-14 15:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 7:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-06-14 14:23 ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-06-12 20:48 ` [patch 3/3] Fix MPOL_INTERLEAVE " clameter
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