linux-kernel - Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 6/8] Enable asynchronous wait page and lock page

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Date:	Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:50:34 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>, linux-aio@...ck.org,
	akpm@...l.org, drepper@...hat.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jakub@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 6/8] Enable asynchronous wait page and lock page

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 08:17:17PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> 
>>I am really bad with names :(  I tried using the _wq suffixes earlier and
>>that seemed confusing to some, but if no one else objects I'm happy to use
>>that. I thought aio_lock_page() might be misleading because it is
>>synchronous if a regular wait queue entry is passed in, but again it may not
>>be too bad.
>>
>>What's your preference ? Does anything more intuitive come to mind ?
> 
> 
> Beein bad about naming seems to be a disease, at least I suffer from it
> aswell.  I wouldn't mind either the _wq or aio_ naming - _wq describes
> the way it's called and aio_ describes it's a special case for aio.
> Similarly to how ->aio_read/->aio_write can be used for synchronous I/O
> aswell.

What about lock_page_async? A synchronous lock_page is the normal case,
and for that guy it makes no sense to explicitly pass in a waitqueue, so
it kind of falls into place?

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