Re: [PATCH]: Free pages from local pcp lists under tight memory conditions

[Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > +extern int drain_local_pages(void);
> > drain_cpu_pcps?
> 
> Please no.
> 
> If there is something I _hate_ it's bad naming. And "pcps" is a totally 
> unintelligible name.
> 
> Write it out. If a function is so trivial that you can't be bothered to 
> write out what the name means, that function shouldn't exist at all. 
> Conversely, if it's worth doing, it's worth writing out a name.


drain_one_cpus_pages_from_per_cpu_pagesets()

drain_one_cpus_remote_pages_from_per_cpu_pagesets()

drain_all_per_cpu_pagesets()

?

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