From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: don't bounce highmem requests
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:10:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090708181053.GA10552@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906231642.52848.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:42:52PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:02:15 am Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Looks like I sent a patch that doesn't actually compile because qui
> > decided to apply those fixes to a different one. Here's the correc
> > one:
> >
> > --
> >
> > Subject: virtio_blk: don't bounce highmem requests
> > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> >
> > By default a block driver bounces highmem requests, but virtio-blk is
> > perfectly fine with any request that fit into it's 64 bit addressing
> > scheme, mapped in the kernel virtual space or not.
>
> Thanks, applied.
Can you forward it to Linus for 2.6.31? It's a trivial fix for an issue
causing a lot of pain to people with highmem enabled.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 18:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-19 18:20 [PATCH] virtio_blk: don't bounce highmem requests Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-20 18:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-06-23 7:12 ` Rusty Russell
2009-07-08 18:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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