RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][Take 3] Sysfs Interface for balloon driver

Satoshi Uchida
2006-10-03T00:53:42Z

Hi, John.

I think that the capital ''B'' means Bytes and ｔhe small
''b'' means bit, usually.
Similarly, the capital ''K'' means binary prefix (power of 2,
namely power of 1024)
and the small ''k'' means SI prefixes (power of 10, namely power
of 1000).
（Sorry, I mistake. In patch, I wrote in reverse.）

In formal (ICE), it is not classified by the capital or the small letters, but
is classified
by adding the character ''i'' (ex. Ki is
''Kilobinary'', called ''Kibi''.).
So, the addition of character ''i'' will be appropriate.
(In this time, ''KiB'' is a appropriate.)

Thanks
Satoshi UCHIDA



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levon [mailto:levon@movementarian.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:05 AM
> To: Satoshi Uchida
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com; ''Ian Pratt''
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][Take 3] Sysfs Interface for
> balloon driver
>
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:21:20PM +0900, Satoshi Uchida wrote:
>
> > For Take 2 patch, this patch modifies only target_kB is kept in
> > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory0 as parameter,
>
> One minor quibble, why the capital ''B''? All the rest of
sysfs
> is in lowercase, and I don''t think you need to clarify the
> difference between bits and bytes here.
>
> regards
> john