From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx178.postini.com [74.125.245.178]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FAED6B0033 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:57:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-gh0-f179.google.com with SMTP id f16so233492ghb.38 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:57:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:57:10 -0700 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] mm/writeback: rename WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD to WB_REASON_WORKER_THREAD Message-ID: <20130614175710.GB6593@mtj.dyndns.org> References: <1371195041-26654-1-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1371195041-26654-4-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1371195041-26654-4-git-send-email-liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Wanpeng Li Cc: Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , David Rientjes , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Fengguang Wu , Rik van Riel , Andrew Shewmaker , Jiri Kosina , Namjae Jeon , Jan Kara , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 03:30:37PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote: > After commit 839a8e86("writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation > with unbound workqueue"), there is no bdi forker thread any more. This patch > rename WB_REASON_FORKER_THREAD to WB_REASON_WORKER_THREAD since works are > done by emergency worker. This is somewhat userland visible and we'll be exposing exactly the same information with just a different name. While the string doesn't match the current implementation exactly, I don't think we need to change it. Maybe add a comment there saying why it has a mismatching name is enough? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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