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

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Message-ID: <20180320134505.GB25623@chelsio.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:15:06 +0530
From:   Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "mingo@...hat.com" <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ganesh GR <ganeshgr@...lsio.com>,
        Nirranjan Kirubaharan <nirranjan@...lsio.com>,
        Indranil Choudhury <indranil@...lsio.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access

On Monday, March 03/19/18, 2018 at 20:57:22 +0530, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Ok.  Will change it to read256() and write256().

Thanks,
Rahul