linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/9] async: Introduce kfence, a N:M completion mechanism

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:02:41 +0200
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
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	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] async: Introduce kfence, a N:M completion mechanism

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:20:14AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:38:52AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Also, I'm not a particular fan of the k* naming, but I see 'fence' is
> > already taken.
> 
> Agreed, I really want to rename the dma-buf fence to struct dma_fence -
> we would need to do that whilst it dma-buf fencing is still in its infancy.

+1 on dma_fence, seems to make more sense than plain struct fence.
Probably best to do after the recent pile of work from Gustavo to de-stage
sync_file has landed.
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch