Re: + vmscan-rename-functions.patch added to -mm tree

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Feb 15 2006 - 06:57:02 EST


On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:35 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:09 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> >>shrink_zone and do_shrink_zone don't really say any more to me than
> >>shrink_zone and shrink_cache.
> >
> >
> > I know not everybody believes in a plugable reclaim policy, but that is
> > what I'm building. And from that POV I'd rather not see the
> > active/inactive names get used here.
> >
>
> active/inactive is what we have now. If you manage to get a pluggable
> reclaim policy merged then I assure you, renaming these yet again will
> be the least of your worries :)

True indeed.

> > My vote goes to Coywolf's suggestion.
> >
>
> What was that?

Hmm, seems like I shouldn't read email before waking up, apparently I
got the quoting levels mixed up.

Anyway, this one:

>> try_to_free_pages
>> ->shrink_zones(struct zone **zones, ..)
>> ->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
>> ->do_shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
>> ->shrink_page_list(struct list_head *, ...)


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