Re: [FSAIO][PATCH 6/8] Enable asynchronous wait page and lock page

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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 08:17:17PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> I am really bad with names :(  I tried using the _wq suffixes earlier and
> that seemed confusing to some, but if no one else objects I'm happy to use
> that. I thought aio_lock_page() might be misleading because it is
> synchronous if a regular wait queue entry is passed in, but again it may not
> be too bad.
> 
> What's your preference ? Does anything more intuitive come to mind ?

Beein bad about naming seems to be a disease, at least I suffer from it
aswell.  I wouldn't mind either the _wq or aio_ naming - _wq describes
the way it's called and aio_ describes it's a special case for aio.
Similarly to how ->aio_read/->aio_write can be used for synchronous I/O
aswell.

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