Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965176AbXAKEyA (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:54:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965224AbXAKEyA (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:54:00 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:55729 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965107AbXAKEx7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:53:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:52:48 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: suparna@in.ibm.com Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, drepper@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jakub@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 1][PATCH 0/6] Filesystem AIO read/write Message-Id: <20070110205248.75d51b99.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20070111031335.GA8392@in.ibm.com> References: <20061227153855.GA25898@in.ibm.com> <20061228082308.GA4476@in.ibm.com> <20070103141556.82db0e81.akpm@osdl.org> <20070104045621.GA8353@in.ibm.com> <20070104090242.44dd8165.akpm@osdl.org> <20070110054419.GA3542@in.ibm.com> <20070110170829.31997fee.akpm@osdl.org> <20070111031335.GA8392@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 842 Lines: 18 On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:43:36 +0530 Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > The s/lock_page_slow/lock_page_blocking/ got lost. I redid it. > > I thought the lock_page_blocking was an alternative you had suggested > to the __lock_page vs lock_page_async discussion which got resolved later. > That is why I didn't make the change in this patchset. > The call does not block in the async case, hence the choice of > the _slow suffix (like in fs/buffer.c). But if lock_page_blocking() > sounds more intuitive to you, that's OK. I thought people didn't like the "lock_page_slow" name. - 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/