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