Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kernel: add support for 256-bit IO access

From: Rahul Lakkireddy
Date: Tue Mar 20 2018 - 09:46:40 EST


On Monday, March 03/19/18, 2018 at 20:57:22 +0530, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 07:50:33PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> > This series of patches add support for 256-bit IO read and write.
> > The APIs are readqq and writeqq (quad quadword - 4 x 64), that read
> > and write 256-bits at a time from IO, respectively.
>
> What a horrible name. please encode the actual number of bits instead.

Ok. Will change it to read256() and write256().

Thanks,
Rahul