linux-kernel - Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

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Message-ID: <20080129024524.GA20198@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

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.

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