Re: [PATCH] x86: create array based interface to chagne page attribute

Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26T09:51:38Z

* Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
>
> When cpa was refactored to the new set_memory_ interfaces, it removed
> a special case fast path for AGP systems, which did a lot of page by
> page attribute changing and held the flushes until they were finished.
> The DRM memory manager also required this to get useable speeds.
>
> This introduces a new interface, which accepts an array of memory
> addresses to have attributes changed on and to flush once finished.
>
> Further changes to the AGP stack to actually use this interface will
> be published later.

thanks Dave, applied.

Ingo