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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access
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On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 07:50:33PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> This series of patches add support for 256-bit IO read and write.
> The APIs are readqq and writeqq (quad quadword - 4 x 64), that read
> and write 256-bits at a time from IO, respectively.

What a horrible name.  please encode the actual number of bits instead.