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

[Bart Van Assche]

On 11/17/2015 09:16 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 11/13/2015 11:02 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:19:24AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > On 11/13/2015 05:46 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > The new name is irq_poll as iopoll is already taken.  Better suggestions
> > > > welcome.
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to provide more background information about this ?
> > > Which other kernel subsystem is using the name iopoll ?
> >
> > Take a look at include/linux/iopoll.h  - I can't reaplly make much sense
> > of it to be honest, but it's used in a quite a few places.
>
> 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.

(replying to my own e-mail)

Please ignore the previous comment - I just noticed that this mechanism 
is not limited to block devices.

Bart.

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