From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, jens.axboe@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: replace BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY with BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:18:44 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49058774.3030506@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081027173739Q.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> I'm not familiar with what Xen does but why can't Xen just override
> BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE?
>
> Why does Xen need to hook BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE to the iommu_bio_merge
> parameter (as this patch does)? BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE and the
> iommu_bio_merge parameter are not related at all.
>
No, it doesn't. It was convenient to reuse that mechanism, but I can
easily re-add something else (which would be more or less identical).
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 5:41 [PATCH] x86: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY definition FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-24 20:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-27 4:42 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-24 20:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-24 20:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: replace BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY with BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-27 3:52 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-27 8:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-27 8:37 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-27 9:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-10-27 9:36 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-27 9:41 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-27 11:43 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-27 11:57 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-28 23:06 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-29 8:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-29 9:24 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-29 10:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-29 11:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-29 11:27 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-29 11:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-29 11:34 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-29 11:55 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-29 12:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-29 13:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-29 13:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-29 13:06 ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-29 9:27 ` Jens Axboe
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