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

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Message-ID: <564B60EC.3050106@sandisk.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:16:28 -0800
From:	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>
CC:	<linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>, <sagig@....mellanox.co.il>,
	<axboe@...com>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] move blk_iopoll to limit and make it generally
 available

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.

Bart.
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