From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7B6C6B005A for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:03:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A76F27E.5070407@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:21:50 +0300 From: Izik Eidus MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/12] ksm: rename kernel_pages_allocated References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Rik van Riel , Chris Wright , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hugh Dickins wrote: > We're not implementing swapping of KSM pages in its first release; > but when that follows, "kernel_pages_allocated" will be a very poor > name for the sysfs file showing number of nodes in the stable tree: > rename that to "pages_shared" throughout. > > But we already have a "pages_shared", counting those page slots > sharing the shared pages: first rename that to... "pages_sharing". > > What will become of "max_kernel_pages" when the pages shared can > be swapped? I guess it will just be removed, so keep that name. > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins > --- > > > ACK. -- 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