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From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] nvme: track shared namespaces
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:37:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170921143748.GB18424@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170921052217.kmrcmsf4gttubsyd@linux-x5ow.site>

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017@07:22:17AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> > But head also has connotations in the SAN world.  Maybe nvme_ns_chain?
> 
> I know that's why I didn't really like it all too much in the first place as
> well. For nvme_ns_chain, it's not a chain really (the list itself is a chain,
> the structure really is the list head...), but I suck at naming things so.

Well, it _is_ the structure for the namespace, and that's the fundamental
problem here given that we use that name for something else at the
moment.

We could hav nvme_namespace and nvme_ns, but I'm not sure that this
helps clarity..

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-21 14:37 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
2017-09-21  5:22       ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-09-21 14:37         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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