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

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-12-19T17:48:45Z

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