Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755837AbbKRN6n (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:58:43 -0500 Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:33143 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755252AbbKRN6m (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2015 08:58:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 14:58:39 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Bart Van Assche Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, sagig@dev.mellanox.co.il, axboe@fb.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] move blk_iopoll to limit and make it generally available Message-ID: <20151118135839.GB18820@lst.de> References: <1447422410-20891-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <1447422410-20891-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <564637BC.7080604@sandisk.com> <20151114070248.GB27738@lst.de> <564B60EC.3050106@sandisk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <564B60EC.3050106@sandisk.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 698 Lines: 13 On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:16:28AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > 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. Well, the point is that there is no block layer specific code in there, and the RDMA stack isn't really part of the block layer either. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/