Re: [PATCH 1/1] [PPC] 8xx swap bug-fix

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Vitaly,

in message <20080205013857.47ebe544@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:24:21 -0600
> Scott Wood wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 12:22:17PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> > > Hi Yuri,
> > > 
> > > >  Here is the patch which makes Linux-2.6 swap routines operate
> > > > correctly on the ppc-8xx-based machines.
> > > 
> > > is there any 8xx board left which isn't ported to ARCH=powerpc?
> > 
> > More importantly, is this something that is also broken in
> > arch/powerpc?  It looks like it has the same code...
> > 
> yes, it is. Though there is currently no best-at-all solution, this looks worth trying.
> I'll have a look how the 8xx feels under load and report back.

Have you been able to check if arch/powerpc needs similar fixing?


Also, what is the current state of this patch? I would like to avoid
that it get's lost completeley.


BenH commented on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:37:07 +1100:

> Best is to just remove writeback completely and let the generic
> code handle it.

Has this been considered / tested by anybody?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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