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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	jeremy@goop.org, joerg.roedel@amd.com,
	beckyb@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] swiotlb cleanups
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:45:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081228094522.GD9022@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081228183522O.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>


* FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:05:37 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > > This is minor swiotlb cleanups. It depends on the swiotlb highmem
> > > patchset:
> > > 
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomo/linux-2.6-misc.git swiotlb
> > 
> > thanks, applied them to tip/core/iommu - after Becky's patchset as ported 
> > by Jeremy.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> The log of tip/core/iommu looks really wired. Two patches claim to add 
> highmem support to swioblb. Becky completely reverts the Jeremy's and 
> does in a different way without any description.

one is Jeremy's that was tested on Xen. The other is Becky's stuff - that 
also extends it to powerpc - that is not yet fully tested though.

> As I wrote, I recommend you to reorder the patches. There is no point to 
> merge Jeremy's highmem patch.

"reordering" commits is not acceptable at this stage, we do append-only 
steps. If you can see any bug in the end result, let us know.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-28  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-28  6:02 [PATCH 0/3] swiotlb cleanups FUJITA Tomonori
2008-12-28  6:02 ` [PATCH 1/3] replace architecture-specific swiotlb.h with linux/swiotlb.h FUJITA Tomonori
2008-12-28  6:02   ` [PATCH 2/3] swiotlb: remove unnecessary declaration FUJITA Tomonori
2008-12-28  6:02     ` [PATCH 3/3] swiotlb: clean up EXPORT_SYMBOL usage FUJITA Tomonori
2008-12-28  9:05 ` [PATCH 0/3] swiotlb cleanups Ingo Molnar
2008-12-28  9:36   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-12-28  9:45     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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