Re: [PATCH 00 of 14] swiotlb/x86: lay groundwork for xen dom0 use of swiotlb

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>]

Becky Bruce wrote:
>
> On Dec 19, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> Becky Bruce wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, this is horrible timing for me, as starting tomorrow, 
>>> I'm going to be offline for a week and a half or so in podunk 
>>> Louisiana with essentially no net access.  I can integrate my code 
>>> into your tree and test on PPC as soon as I return to the real world.
>>
>> Yeah, I think that's OK.  The important thing at this point is to 
>> determine whether the two patch sets are aligned or conflicting.  It 
>> sounds like they're largely aligned, and so generating a delta from 
>> my patches to match your needs will be relatively straightforward.
>>
>> I'm trying to line all this Xen stuff up for this merge window, so 
>> I'd prefer to revisit it in the next dev cycle.  Did you want to get 
>> something into this merge window?
>
> I was originally hoping to get something into this merge window, but 
> the timing just isn't working out for me.  The rest of the support is 
> already in the kernel for ppc (actually, most everything is in 
> 2.6.28), and swiotlb is the last bit I need to get this working.   Ah 
> well.... I'll hop to work on this from the ppc point of view as soon 
> as I get back online, and we'll see where that takes us. 


Hm, yes, they're really very similar patch sets.  We can definitely turn 
this into something that will work for both.

    J