[linux-mm-cc] [PATCH 1/4] compcache: xvmalloc memory allocator

[Nitin Gupta]

On 08/24/2009 11:38 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Nitin,
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Nitin Gupta<ngupta at vflare.org>  wrote:
>> I am okay with renaming it to rzmalloc and compiling it with ramzswap
>> instead of as separate module.
>
> 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() ?

Nitin