From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932281AbXCUXo5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:44:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932306AbXCUXo5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:44:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56706 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932281AbXCUXoz (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:44:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:42:36 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Andrew Morton Cc: Alan Cox , Andi Kleen , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature. Message-ID: <20070321234236.GD9092@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Andi Kleen , "Robert P. J. Day" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Adrian Bunk References: <20070320165736.GA19781@redhat.com> <20070320181442.1ae73295@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20070321151952.02b5612d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070321231935.GC9092@redhat.com> <20070321162717.34edb348.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070321162717.34edb348.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:27:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > [1] Though admittedly the one in RHEL deviates from upstream > > as it contains performance enhancements that were vetoed from > > upstream acceptance due to it being "deprecated". > > What enhancements are they? Hmm, actually it seems I was mistaken, we didn't merge those after all, we seem to be shipping what was upstream in 2.6.9/2.6.18. The patches I was thinking of were a bunch of optimisations for higher throughput from someone at Intel iirc. Ken Chen maybe? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk