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I am ok if others do not >>> sign onto the rationale for why not include _MEMORY, but lets capture >>> something that tries to clarify that this is a unique node state that >>> can have "all of the above" memory types relative to the existing >>> _MEMORY states. >>> >> >> To me, N_ is a common prefix, we do have N_HIGH_MEMORY, N_NORMAL_MEMORY. >> N_PRIVATE does not tell me if it's CPU or memory related. > > True that confusion about whether N_PRIVATE can apply to CPUs is there. > How about split the difference and call this: > > N_MEM_PRIVATE > > To make it both distinct from _MEMORY and _HIGH_MEMORY which describe > ZONE limitations and distinct from N_CPU. I'd be open to that name, how about N_MEMORY_PRIVATE? So then N_MEMORY becomes (N_MEMORY_PUBLIC by default) Balbir