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Petersen wrote:=0A= > =0A= > Damien,=0A= > =0A= >> I am not super happy with the name either. I used this one as the=0A= >> least worst of possibilities I thought of. seek_range/srange ? ->=0A= >> that is very HDD centric and as we can reuse this for things like=0A= >> dm-linear on top of SSDs, that does not really work. I would prefer=0A= >> something that convey the idea of "parallel command execution", since=0A= >> this is the main point of the interface. prange ? cdm_range ?=0A= >> req_range ?=0A= > =0A= > How about independent_access_range? That doesn't imply head positioning= =0A= > and can also be used to describe a fault domain. And it is less=0A= > disk-centric than concurrent_positioning_range.=0A= =0A= I like it, but a bit long-ish. Do you think shortening to access_range woul= d be=0A= acceptable ?=0A= =0A= we would have:=0A= =0A= /sys/block/XYZ/queue/access_ranges/...=0A= =0A= and=0A= =0A= struct blk_access_range {=0A= ...=0A= sector_t sector;=0A= sector_t nr_sectors;=0A= }=0A= =0A= struct blk_access_range *arange;=0A= =0A= Adding independent does make everything even more obvious, but names become= =0A= rather long. Not an issue for the sysfs directory I think, but=0A= =0A= struct blk_independent_access_range {=0A= ...=0A= sector_t sector;=0A= sector_t nr_sectors;=0A= }=0A= =0A= is rather a long struct name. Shortening independent to "ind" could very ea= sily=0A= be confused with "indirection", so that is not an option. And "iaccess" is= =0A= obscure...=0A= =0A= > =0A= > I concur that those names are a bit unwieldy but at least they are=0A= > somewhat descriptive.=0A= > =0A= > I consulted the thesaurus and didn't really like the other options=0A= > (discrete, disjoint, separate, etc.). I think 'independent' is more=0A= > accurate for this and better than 'concurrent' and 'parallel'.=0A= > =0A= =0A= =0A= -- =0A= Damien Le Moal=0A= Western Digital Research=0A=