From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Stone Wang <pwstone@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][5/8] proc: export mlocked pages info through "/proc/meminfo: Wired"
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:23:18 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4420FB66.3090206@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc56f2f0603212137s727ff0edu@mail.gmail.com>
Stone Wang wrote:
> The name "Wired" could be changed to which one most kids think better
> fits the job.
>
> I choosed "Wired" for:
> "Locked" will conflict with PG_locked bit of a pags.
> "Pinned" indicates a short-term lock,so not fits the job too.
>
Err we're going around in circles here. This tangent started because
I suggested that you could call them "mlock" or "mlocked".
But don't get too hung up on the naming. I pointed out quite a lot
of much more fundamental problems.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-22 7:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 13:37 Stone Wang
2006-03-21 12:21 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-21 15:33 ` Stone Wang
2006-03-21 19:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-22 0:22 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-22 5:37 ` Stone Wang
2006-03-22 7:23 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-03-22 9:04 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-24 16:34 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-24 16:38 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-24 18:19 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-24 18:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-21 21:43 ` Dave Hansen
2006-03-22 6:02 ` Stone Wang
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