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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] nvme: track shared namespaces
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:54:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170920145436.GA4709@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170920083643.xe6dbr4iu53hhm5t@linux-x5ow.site>

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:36:43AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Being one of the persons who has to backport a lot of NVMe code to older
> kernels I'm not a huge fan of renaming nmve_ns.

The churn is main main worry.  Well and that I don't have a reall good
name for what currently is nvme_ns either :)

> That said, I don't have a better name for nvme_ns_head (yet) but I'll try to
> think of one as well. OTOH looking at nvme_ns_head it actaully is the list
> head of the nvme_ns list.

But head also has connotations in the SAN world.  Maybe nvme_ns_chain?

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-20 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-18 23:14 nvme multipath support V2 Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 1/9] nvme: allow timed-out ios to retry Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 2/9] block: move REQ_NOWAIT Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 3/9] block: add REQ_DRV bit Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 4/9] block: provide a direct_make_request helper Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 5/9] block: add a blk_steal_bios helper Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 6/9] nvme: track subsystems Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21 22:52   ` Keith Busch
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 7/9] nvme: introduce a nvme_ns_ids structure Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20  8:27   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 8/9] nvme: track shared namespaces Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20  8:36   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20 14:54     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-21  5:22       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-21 14:37         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21 15:16           ` Keith Busch
2017-09-24 15:25             ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18 23:14 ` [PATCH 9/9] nvme: implement multipath access to nvme subsystems Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20  0:18   ` Tony Yang
2017-09-20  8:15     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20  9:42   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20 22:58   ` Keith Busch
2017-09-20 23:52     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21 21:12       ` Keith Busch
2017-09-24 14:42         ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-22 15:09   ` Keith Busch
2017-09-24 14:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-20 11:09 ` nvme multipath support V2 Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-20 14:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-21  5:23     ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-21 14:50       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-22  0:21         ` Tony Yang
2017-09-24 14:41           ` Christoph Hellwig

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