Re: [PATCHv8 0/5] iomap: Add support for per-block dirty state to improve write performance

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On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 01:37:48PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 1. Renamed iomap_page -> iomap_folio & iop -> iof in Patch-1 itself.
> 
> I don't think iomap_folio is the right name.  Indeed, I did not believe
> that iomap_page was the right name.  As I said on #xfs recently ...
> 
> <willy> i'm still not crazy about iomap_page as the name of that
>    data structure.  and calling the variable 'iop' just seems doomed
>    to be trouble.  how do people feel about either iomap_block_state or
>    folio_block_state ... or even just calling it block_state since it's
>    local to iomap/buffered-io.c
> <willy> we'd then call the variable either ibs or fbs, both of which
>    have some collisions in the kernel, but none in filesystems
> <dchinner> willy - sounds reasonable

I'd keep an iomap prefix, but block_state looks fine to me.  So
iomap_block_state would be my preference.




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