From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] sata_mv ncq Use DMA memory pools for hardware memory tables Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:10:55 -0500 Message-ID: <479F5E1F.8030508@pobox.com> References: <479BC217.60709@rtr.ca> <479BC31D.1050206@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:45468 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760192AbYA2RK5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:10:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: <479BC31D.1050206@rtr.ca> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Lord Cc: IDE/ATA development list Mark Lord wrote: > Create host-owned DMA memory pools, for use in allocating/freeing per-port > command/response queues and SG tables. This gives us a way to guarantee we > meet the hardware address alignment requirements, and also reduces > memory that > might otherwise be wasted on alignment gaps. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Lord ACK patches 1-13 applied patches 1-9 to #upstream. patch #10 failed, with git-am reporting it as a corrupt patch.