Re: [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator

[Pekka Enberg]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Nitin Gupta<ngupta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is the name rzmalloc() too similar to kzalloc() which stands for
>> zeroing allocator, though? I think I suggested
>> ramzswap_alloc()/ramzswap_free() in the past to avoid confusion. I'd
>> rather go with that if we can't come up with a nice generic name that
>> stands for alloc_part_of_page_including_highmem().
>
> rzs_malloc()/rzs_free() ?

I am not sure what we gain from the shorter and more cryptic "rzs"
prefix compared to "ramzswap" but yeah, it's less likely to be
confused with kzalloc() so I'm okay with that.
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