Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [patch] mm: dirty page tracking race fix | Date | Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:12:17 +1000 |
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On Monday 18 August 2008 18:07, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 18:03 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Monday 18 August 2008 17:49, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 07:38 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and > > > > try_to_unmap. > > > > > > s/synch/sync/ ? > > > > > > we use sync all over the kernel to mean synchonous, so why are you > > > inventing a new shorthand? > > > > Mmm, we also use synch all over the kernel to mean synchronous, > > including in mm/, so I'm not inventing a new shorthand. sync I > > see is more common, but it's not something anybody would get > > confused about is it? > > I hadn't noticed before, and my grep skillz seem to have left me in the > cold > > git grep "\<synch\>" mm/* | wc -l > 0
"asynch" ;) 1 hit! So *technically* I'm wrong...
> And you're right, its not something one can get confused about. So lets > just keep it unless someone else objects ;-)
Andrew feel free to edit the patch if/when you pick it up :P
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