Re: [Xen-devel] Ping: [PATCH v3 0/4] x86/HVM: implement memory read caching

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Oct 2, 2018, at 1:47 PM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>>> On 02.10.18 at 12:51, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This doesn't behave like real hardware, and definitely doesn't behave as
>> named - "struct hvmemul_cache" is simply false.  If it were named
>> hvmemul_psc (or some other variation on Paging Structure Cache) then it
>> wouldn't be so bad, as the individual levels do make more sense in that
>> context
> 
> As previously pointed out (without any suggestion coming back from
> you), I chose the name "cache" for the lack of a better term. However,
> I certainly disagree with naming it PSC or some such, as its level zero
> is intentionally there to be eventually used for non-paging-structure
> data.

I can think of lots of descriptive names which could yield unique three-letter 
acronyms:

Logical Read Sequence
Logical Read Series
Logical Read Record
Read Consistency Structure
Consistent Read Structure
Consistent Read Record
Emulation Read Record
[…]

 -George
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