From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/20] dma_ops for i386 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:06:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20080326070616.GI18301@elte.hu> References: <1206480999-21767-1-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@qumranet.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org To: Glauber Costa Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1206480999-21767-1-git-send-email-gcosta@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org * Glauber Costa wrote: > Hello, > > Here there is a series of 20 patches that lays the foundations for > using dma_ops in i386 in the very same way x86_64, as well as many > other architectures already do. > > The functions themselves for i386 are placed in a pci-base_32.c, but > just a few among them are actually implemented. Most were no-ops > anyway. > > Also, as I said, this is by no means a complete coverage of dma_ops. > there are still some call sites to be patches in pci-dma_32.c > (although I don't really plan to change them, but to integrate them in > a single pci-dma.c). I intend to have it done progressively. > > The granularity is per-operation, meaning each patch moves one > specific function to the common header. This is compiled-tested in > both i386 and x86_64 in ~5 randconfigs each, and boot-tested in my > hardware with my default configs > > The motivation for that is the ongoing work for pci-passthrough in > KVM. So ingo, avi, what do you think it's the best way to handle these > patches through? looks very nice to me! I've applied it to x86.git, lets see what happens. Ingo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace