Re: [PATCH 1/9] move blk_iopoll to limit and make it generally available

Christoph Hellwig
2015-11-18T13:58:43Z

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:16:28AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> 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.

Well, the point is that there is no block layer specific code in there,
and the RDMA stack isn't really part of the block layer either.