[RFC PATCH 2/7] block: don't merge different kinds of P2P transfers in a single bio

Leon Romanovsky leon at kernel.org
Thu Oct 31 23:11:16 PDT 2024


On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 01:58:37PM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 10/27/24 7:21 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > +		/*
> > +		 * When doing ZONE_DEVICE-based P2P transfers, all pages in a
> > +		 * bio must be P2P pages from the same device.
> > +		 */
> > +		if ((bio->bi_opf & REQ_P2PDMA) &&
> > +		    !zone_device_pages_have_same_pgmap(bv->bv_page, page))
> > +			return 0;
> 
> It's probably too late to change the "zone_device_" prefix into
> something that cannot be confused with a reference to zoned block
> devices?

It is never too late to send a patch which renames the names, but it needs
to be worth it. However it is hard to see global benefit from zone_device_* rename.
ZONE_DEVICE is a well known term in the kernel and it is used all other places
in the kernel.

Thanks

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bart.
> 



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