From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758988AbYA2Cpf (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:45:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752353AbYA2Cp0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:45:26 -0500 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:38698 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752112AbYA2Cp0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:45:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates Message-ID: <20080129024524.GA20198@parisc-linux.org> References: <20080129001147.GD31101@parisc-linux.org> <20080128170734.3101b6aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080128170734.3101b6aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:07:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > The usual form is, I believe, > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git dmapool > > Otherwise people get all confused and think it's an empty tree (like I just > did). Sorry! > There were no replies to v2 of the patch series. It all looks reasonable > from a quick scan (assuming the patches are unchanged since then). I haven't changed them, correct. > afaik these patches have been tested by nobody except thyself? I've tested them myself, then I sent them to the perf team who ran the (4 hour long) benchmark, and they reported success. As with many patches these days, they sank into a pit of indifference. Perhaps I need to take a leaf from my former government's book and sex up my patch descriptions a bit. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step."