linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] block: move poll code to blk-mq

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Message-ID: <20161104144410.GA29203@lst.de>
Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:44:10 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] block: move poll code to blk-mq

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 01:45:05PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> The poll code is blk-mq specific, let's move it to blk-mq.c. This
> is a prep patch for improving the polling code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

So I gave my ok earlier, but I spent some more time looking at this
this morning and now I wonder why we even bother to keep some
code in blk-core.c.  How about just renaming the whole damn thing
to blk_mq_poll and move it to blk-mq.c instead of that split?