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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > That's completely new terminology. We always called all of ZONE_NORMAL low > memory. We call it "low" memory because it happens to have "low" addresses. In other words, it's not "terminology", it's "English". None of the allocators that allocate stuff in ZONE_NORMAL is called "low" normally. It's _normal_ memory. It's not ZONE_LOW. We don't say "kmalloc_low()". We say "kmalloc()". A function that is called "xyz_low()" means something else than normal to me. If it was normal memory, we'd call it just "xyz()". And if it did high memory, we'd call it "xyz_highmem()" (or, preferably, we'd just have a generic function that accepted GFP_HIGHMEM as a parameter). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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