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

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Message-ID: <564B6374.1050201@sandisk.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:27:16 -0800
From:	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
CC:	"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	"sagig@....mellanox.co.il" <sagig@....mellanox.co.il>,
	"axboe@...com" <axboe@...com>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] move blk_iopoll to limit and make it generally
 available

On 11/17/2015 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.

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