linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access

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Message-ID: <20180319152722.GA31104@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 08:27:22 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
        hpa@...or.com, davem@...emloft.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, ganeshgr@...lsio.com,
        nirranjan@...lsio.com, indranil@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 07:50:33PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> This series of patches add support for 256-bit IO read and write.
> The APIs are readqq and writeqq (quad quadword - 4 x 64), that read
> and write 256-bits at a time from IO, respectively.

What a horrible name.  please encode the actual number of bits instead.