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

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Message-ID: <20151118135839.GB18820@lst.de>
Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:58:39 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	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 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.
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