From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Support 64K pages mapping of SPE local stores on 4K kernel
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:44:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1177195469.6080.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704212233.34521.arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 22:33 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > This serie of patches supports userland mappings of SPE local stores
> > using 64K hardware pages rather than 4K on a kernel using 4K pages to
> > improve performances.
>
> Ben, I have problems porting these patches to powerpc.git#for-2.6.22.
> Could you port them yourself and submit them to Paul? What is the
> status of the second patch, do you have a version suitable for upstream?
I have more up to date versions of these, I'll do the port. The generic
change needs to be done differently for upstream. I've been posting
regulary a serie of patches that change get_unmapped_area() for that
which I hope will get upstream but I yet to have some feedback from
akpm...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-21 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-02 11:32 [PATCH 0/5] Support 64K pages mapping of SPE local stores on 4K kernel Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-02 11:32 ` [PATCH 1/5] powerpc: Fix spu SLB invalidations Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-02 11:32 ` [PATCH 2/5] This is a hack to get_unmapped_area to make the SPE 64K code work Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-02 11:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] powerpc: Introduce address space "slices" Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-02 11:33 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: Add ability to 4K kernel to hash in 64K pages Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-02 11:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc: spufs support for 64K LS mappings on 4K kernels Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-21 20:33 ` [PATCH 0/5] Support 64K pages mapping of SPE local stores on 4K kernel Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-21 22:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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2007-02-20 7:44 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-01 7:29 ` Michael Ellerman
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