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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@mellanox.co.il,
	jackm@mellanox.co.il
Subject: Re: pgprot_writecombine() and PATs on x86
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:10:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704252110.49603.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070425184108.GB23721@redhat.com>

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 20:41:08 Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 08:19:27PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>  > On Wednesday 25 April 2007 20:02:26 Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > > Hi Eric,
>  > > 
>  > > Where do your patches to add an implementation of
>  > > pgprot_writecombine() using PATs on x86 stand?  
>  > 
>  > It's on my todo list.
> 
> Whats the status on the code at ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/pat/patches ?
> I've not given it much more than a quick skim, so I'm not sure what
> it's capable of/what its missing etc..

That code has a couple of problems and is relatively broken

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-25 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25 18:02 pgprot_writecombine() and PATs on x86 Roland Dreier
2007-04-25 18:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-25 18:31   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-25 18:35     ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-25 18:45       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-26  5:43         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2007-04-26  6:13           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-25 18:33   ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-25 18:41   ` Dave Jones
2007-04-25 19:10     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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