From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart Van Assche Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] move blk_iopoll to limit and make it generally available Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:27:16 -0800 Message-ID: <564B6374.1050201@sandisk.com> References: <1447422410-20891-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <1447422410-20891-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <564637BC.7080604@sandisk.com> <20151114070248.GB27738@lst.de> <564B60EC.3050106@sandisk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <564B60EC.3050106@sandisk.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il" , "axboe@fb.com" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 11/17/2015 09:16 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > 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. (replying to my own e-mail) Please ignore the previous comment - I just noticed that this mechanism is not limited to block devices. Bart.