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From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
To: John Dorminy <jdorminy@redhat.com>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>, Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: dm: rename max_io_len to io_boundary
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:52:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190322005218.GA18625@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMeeMh8Sed3ZN5wew6epsNJghzXgQ9Krsku-TSsLEGrHLACTnQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 21 2019 at  6:57pm -0400,
John Dorminy <jdorminy@redhat.com> wrote:

> Perhaps this wording might be clearer?
> 
> /* If non-zero, I/O submitted to a target will be split so as to not
> straddle any multiple of this length (in bytes) */

.max_io_len is a pretty well-worn DM target attribute.

I'd prefer to just take a patch with the above updated comment and leave
max_io_len as is.  Not too interested in a flag day to rename it,
especially since it just becomes churn for every target, etc.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-22  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-21 20:48 [PATCH] dm: rename max_io_len to io_boundary Mikulas Patocka
2019-03-21 22:57 ` John Dorminy
2019-03-22  0:52   ` Mike Snitzer [this message]
2019-03-22 13:21   ` Mikulas Patocka
2019-03-22 15:48     ` John Dorminy

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