From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
To: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@avagotech.com>,
Praveen Krishnamoorthy <praveen.krishnamoorthy@avagotech.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] fusion: remove dead MTRR code
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 22:27:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519202732.GN23057@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6V8bVPofvcaGhUebqZckvEAvbYrSdv1EJU52M-4vrFQ8g@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:50:40PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
> >
> > If and when this gets enabled the driver could should split
> > up IO memory space properly and that is quite a bit of work.
> > Just remove the uncommented dead MTRR code then.
> >
> > There are a few motivations for this:
> >
> > a) Take advantage of PAT when available
> >
> > b) Help bury MTRR code away, MTRR is architecture specific and on
> > x86 its replaced by PAT
> >
> > c) Help with the goal of eventually using _PAGE_CACHE_UC over
> > _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS on x86 on ioremap_nocache() (see commit
> > de33c442e titled "x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx,
> > use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and
> > pci_mmap_page_range()")
>
> Hey folks, who's tree should this go through if agreeable?
Hey folks, can this be applied? Thanks.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-19 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-21 20:46 [PATCH v3] fusion: remove dead MTRR code Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-04-29 19:50 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-05-19 20:27 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2015-05-29 20:23 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-06-03 23:02 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-06-04 4:50 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-04 17:41 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-06-05 11:47 ` Sreekanth Reddy
2015-06-05 22:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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