Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/9] move blk_iopoll to limit and make it generally available | From | Bart Van Assche <> | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:16:28 -0800 |
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On 11/13/2015 11:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:19:24AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> On 11/13/2015 05:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> The new name is irq_poll as iopoll is already taken. Better suggestions >>> welcome. >> >> Would it be possible to provide more background information about this ? >> Which other kernel subsystem is using the name iopoll ? > > Take a look at include/linux/iopoll.h - I can't reaplly make much sense > of it to be honest, but it's used in a quite a few places.
How about renaming blk_iopoll into blk_poll ? That way the name still refers to the block layer. And although the current implementation performs polling from IRQ context future implementations maybe will allow polling from thread context.
Bart.
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