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From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] ide-tape: improve buffer allocation strategy
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 23:32:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804032332.29380.bzolnier@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206812769-10065-2-git-send-email-petkovbb@gmail.com>


Hi,

On Saturday 29 March 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Instead of allocating pages for the buffer one by one, take advantage of the
> buddy alloc system and request them 2^order at a time. This increases the chance
> for bigger buffer parts to be contigious and reduces loop iteration count. While
> at it, rename function __idetape_kmalloc_stage() to ide_tape_kmalloc_buffer().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>

applied patches #1-4

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-03 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-29 17:46 [PATCH 0/5] ide-tape: refit tape data buffer bits/kill pipelining Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] ide-tape: improve buffer allocation strategy Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46   ` Borislav Petkov
2008-04-03 21:32   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2008-03-29 17:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] ide-tape: mv tape->stage_size tape->buffer_size Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46   ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] ide-tape: mv tape->pages_per_stage tape->pages_per_buffer Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46   ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] ide-tape: improve buffer pages freeing strategy Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46   ` Borislav Petkov
2008-04-03 21:33   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-29 17:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] ide-tape: remove the last remains of pipelining Borislav Petkov
2008-03-29 17:46   ` Borislav Petkov
2008-04-03 22:04   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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