Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 02:48:36 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: lowmem_reserve (replaces protection) |
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:42:37PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com> wrote: > > > > I don't see any other equivalent teminology besides my "classzone" word > > existing, > > I'll confess that I've never understood what "classzone" _means_. Is it "a > zone from amongst several classes" or what? > > If it was "zone_class" then it might mean "a particular classification of > zones". Maybe that's what you meant? > > I think a lot of other mm hackers share my confusion, which is why > "classzone" has been trickling away. But yeah, we haven't been replacing it > with anything very useful.
it's very easy to explain it now that you spontanously used that concept in 2.6: classzone is the piece of ram represented by what you previously called alloc_type in 2.6.9 mainline alloc_pages function. You wrote that code so you know what it means. If you prefer to still call that alloc_type that's fine with me. - 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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