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From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	"Leech, Christopher" <christopher.leech@intel.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:51:45 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070611065145.GA23404@linux-sh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c20706102201y536de24ft2daf8fbed066e28f@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Overall, I feel that async_tx is perhaps justifiably receiving the
> silent treatment because offload engines are not a mainstream
> occurrence.  Currently only people with an Xscale IOP or a PPC 440spe
> [4] will notice that mainline lacks support for all the features of
> their platform.  I see async_tx as a nod to the embedded space where
> offload engines act to make up for the absence of multi-Ghz CPUs with
> streaming SIMD instructions.
> 
For what it's worth, I'm planning on tying in the SH DMA stuff to
the dmaengine code, as the async_tx stuff certainly has quite a few bits
of interest. This is probably something I won't get around to for 2.6.23
though, due to time constraints.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-11  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06  9:07 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 11:39 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Gabriel C
2007-06-06 16:51   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-07  0:01     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Robert Hancock
2007-06-06 12:43 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Cedric Le Goater
2007-06-06 15:18   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Michal Piotrowski
2007-06-06 16:01     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Cedric Le Goater
2007-06-06 16:26       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Mel Gorman
2007-06-06 16:35         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-06 16:47           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Mel Gorman
2007-06-06 16:53             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Cedric Le Goater
2007-06-06 17:20               ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 17:06           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-06 19:27             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Peter Zijlstra
2007-06-06 13:04 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Jiri Slaby
2007-06-06 13:06 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Cedric Le Goater
2007-06-06 13:48   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-06 17:23     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 13:49 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 -- ia64 build failure Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-06 17:43   ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 18:11     ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-06 14:00 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 -- x86_64 ACPI panic Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-06 17:52   ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-08  9:15     ` Luming Yu
2007-06-08 18:12       ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-26  6:00         ` Len Brown
     [not found] ` <6bffcb0e0706060356y3628e26m49fdce4d6fb8cac9@mail.gmail.com>
2007-06-06 14:34   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Michal Piotrowski
2007-06-06 17:14     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 16:08 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 - 'lvm vgscan' busticated again Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-06-07  6:44   ` Tejun Heo
2007-06-07 20:28     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-06-08  6:37       ` Tejun Heo
2007-06-06 16:19 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 WANG Cong
2007-06-06 18:09   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-07  2:26     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 WANG Cong
2007-06-07  5:59       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Matt Mackall
2007-06-07  6:51         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 WANG Cong
2007-06-07 14:04           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Matt Mackall
2007-06-07 15:40             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 WANG Cong
2007-06-07 15:59               ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Matt Mackall
2007-06-07 16:39                 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 WANG Cong
2007-06-07 16:59                   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Matt Mackall
2007-06-08  4:43                     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 WANG Cong
2007-06-06 16:30 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-06 18:13   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 19:43     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-07  0:32       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Paul Menage
2007-06-07  1:09         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-07  6:13           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2007-06-06 18:23   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-06 16:42 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Cedric Le Goater
2007-06-06 18:48 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Michal Piotrowski
2007-06-06 20:16   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 22:14   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Kay Sievers
2007-06-07  8:40     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Michal Piotrowski
2007-06-07  8:48       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Kay Sievers
2007-06-07  9:41         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Michal Piotrowski
2007-06-07 15:04           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Kay Sievers
2007-06-07 15:25             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Peter Jones
2007-06-07 15:43               ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-07 15:52                 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 15:59                   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-07 16:06                     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 16:15                       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-07 18:48                         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Bill Nottingham
2007-06-07 20:01                           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-07 21:00                             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Peter Jones
2007-06-07 23:09                               ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-07 22:32                             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Alan Cox
2007-06-07 23:09                               ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-08 15:33                                 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-06-08 15:50                                   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-08 16:11                                     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-08 16:10                                   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Kay Sievers
2007-06-08  7:31                         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-08 15:51                           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-08 16:36                             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Kay Sievers
2007-06-08 17:21                               ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Peter Jones
2007-06-06 19:32 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-06-06 20:24   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 20:52     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Fabio Comolli
2007-06-06 21:28     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Herbert Xu
2007-06-06 23:42       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-07  6:54         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-07  7:01           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Herbert Xu
2007-06-07  7:12             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-11  5:01               ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Dan Williams
2007-06-11  6:26                 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-11  6:51                 ` Paul Mundt [this message]
2007-06-07 19:27           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Adrian Bunk
2007-06-06 20:58 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Grant Wilson
2007-06-06 23:37   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-07 14:53     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Alan Stern
2007-06-08  4:23       ` [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-08 14:06         ` Alan Stern
2007-06-08 18:47           ` Greg KH
2007-06-07  7:53 ` [2.6.22-rc4-mm1] ACPI Exception (processor_throttling) Maciej Rutecki
2007-06-07  8:51   ` Maciej Rutecki
2007-06-07  9:09   ` Luming Yu
2007-06-07 10:30     ` Maciej Rutecki
2007-06-07 12:47 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-06-07 15:34   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-08  0:31     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-06 14:21 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Mikael Pettersson
2007-06-06 15:34 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Jiri Slaby
2007-06-06 17:56   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 18:24     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Jiri Slaby
2007-06-07  6:44       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Tejun Heo
2007-06-07  7:01         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Jiri Slaby
2007-06-07  7:09           ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Tejun Heo
2007-06-07  7:15             ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Jiri Slaby
2007-06-07  7:22               ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Tejun Heo
2007-06-07 15:54                 ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Jiri Slaby
2007-06-07 16:01                   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
2007-06-07 17:02                     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Jiri Slaby
2007-06-07 20:09                       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Greg KH
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     [not found] ` <fa.zIhbKpmFY9tR8ro0OTwpTvD79Xk@ifi.uio.no>
2007-06-06 14:35   ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Robert Hancock
2007-06-06 18:18     ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-06 18:27       ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2007-06-06 19:06         ` 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Andy Whitcroft

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