From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: MTRR use in drivers Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 13:58:03 -0700 Message-ID: <51C7615B.5010508@zytor.com> References: <51C3DDFA.7050204@zytor.com> <51C69732.1010906@gmail.com> <20130623192936.GA28655@khazad-dum.debian.net> <51C75465.9060007@zytor.com> <51C75CD6.5010206@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Airlie Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , Brice Goglin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , David Airlie , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, Andy Lutomirski List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On 06/23/2013 01:54 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: >>> breaking old boxes just because, is just going to get reverted when I >>> get the first regression report that you broke old boxes. >>> >> >> Not "just because", but *if* the choice is between breaking old boxes >> and breaking new boxes I'll take the latter. >> > > But Linus won't so your choice doesn't matter. I hate to break it to you, but we regress on ancient hardware all the time. Optimization work gets done on modern machines, so the sweet spot keeps moving. In particular, if supporting ancient hardware means leaving a lot of performance on modern hardware on the table, we may have to take that penalty. Fortunately, most of the time we don't have to. -hpa