On Mon Mar 2, 2026 at 9:28 PM JST, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> On Sat Feb 28, 2026 at 7:11 AM CET, John Hubbard wrote:
>> The sync/async naming that GSP RM uses is a little bit "off". I
>> spent some time discussing it with them, and the problem is that
>> sync/async is a concept that is somewhat independent of whether
>> a reply is expected. Usually, sync means a blocking wait for a
>> response, which is not necessarily required in all case with
>> GSP RM calls.
>>
>> The naming would be better here if it reflected simply that
>> a response is expected, or not. I don't have great names for
>> that, but "fire and forget" works well for what we have so
>> far called "async". So we could do create a convention in which
>> no annotation means that the API has a response that will come
>> back, and some abbreviated for of "fire and forget" or "one way"
>> added to the function name would mean that no response is
>> expected.
>
> I think the relevant information for the caller is whether the call is
> blocking
> or non-blocking; i.e. do we have cases where we want to block, but discard the
> reply, or expect a reply but don't want to wait for it?
Such a case (block and discard) does exist in nouveau (RECV_POLL type
command queue submission) and IIRC it's used in the suspend/resume path
(code was added in 8c327a0660a4 ("drm/nouveau/nvkm: introduce new GSP reply
policy NVKM_GSP_RPC_REPLY_POLL"))
But, we won't have this issue in nova-core because we can explicitly
specify the reply size. So I think your suggested naming is good. I will
update the series with this naming unless there are objections.
Thanks
