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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@...>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@...>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>, <linux-mm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <akpm@...>, <dkegel@...>, David Miller <davem@...>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC)
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 7:08 pm

On Friday 26 October 2007 10:44, Peter wrote:

Hi Peter,

The term is "highwater mark" not "high watermark".  A watermark is an 
anti-counterfeiting device printed on paper money.  "Highwater" is how 
high water gets, which I believe is the sense we intend in Linux.  
Therefore any occurrence of "watermark" in the kernel source is a 
spelling mistake, unless it has something to do with printing paper 
money.

While fixing this entrenched terminology abuse in our kernel source may 
be difficult, sticking to the correct English on lkml is quite easy :-)

Regards,

Daniel
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[RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Tue Aug 14, 10:21 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Daniel Phillips, (Wed Sep 5, 5:20 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Wed Sep 5, 6:42 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Daniel Phillips, (Wed Sep 5, 12:16 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 10, 3:25 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Sep 10, 3:55 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 10, 4:22 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Sep 10, 4:48 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Pavel Machek, (Fri Oct 26, 1:44 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Daniel Phillips, (Sat Oct 27, 7:08 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Fri Oct 26, 1:55 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Daniel Phillips, (Sat Oct 27, 6:58 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Mike Snitzer, (Sat Sep 8, 1:12 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Daniel Phillips, (Mon Sep 17, 8:28 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Mike Snitzer, (Mon Sep 17, 11:27 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Sep 18, 5:30 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Daniel Phillips, (Tue Sep 18, 1:37 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Nick Piggin, (Wed Sep 5, 7:42 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Wed Sep 5, 8:14 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Sep 12, 6:52 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Wed Sep 12, 6:47 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Sep 13, 4:19 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Thu Sep 13, 2:32 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Sep 13, 3:24 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Nick Piggin, (Wed Sep 5, 8:19 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 10, 3:29 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Nick Piggin, (Tue Sep 11, 3:41 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Sep 10, 3:37 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 10, 3:41 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Sep 10, 3:55 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 10, 4:17 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Mon Sep 10, 4:48 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Nick Piggin, (Wed Aug 15, 8:22 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Aug 15, 9:12 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Nick Piggin, (Wed Aug 15, 11:29 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Sun Aug 19, 11:51 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Nick Piggin, (Mon Aug 20, 8:28 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Wed Sep 12, 6:39 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Aug 21, 11:29 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Nick Piggin, (Wed Aug 22, 11:02 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Mon Aug 20, 3:15 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Nick Piggin, (Mon Aug 20, 8:32 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Thu Aug 16, 4:27 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 4:29 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 15, 10:15 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Wed Aug 15, 9:55 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Wed Aug 15, 4:32 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 15, 10:34 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Aug 14, 10:36 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Tue Aug 14, 11:29 am)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Aug 14, 3:32 pm)
Re: [RFC 0/3] Recursive reclaim (on __PF_MEMALLOC), Christoph Lameter, (Tue Aug 14, 3:41 pm)