linux-kernel - Re: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)

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Date:	Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:17:51 -0700
From:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	keithp@...thp.com, Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	"hugh@...itas.com" <hugh@...itas.com>,
	"hch@...radead.org" <hch@...radead.org>,
	"airlied@...ux.ie" <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	"thomas@...gstengraphics.com" <thomas@...gstengraphics.com>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" <dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: pageable memory allocator (for DRM-GEM?)

On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:15 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> At this point I think we should go ahead and include Eric's earlier patchset
> into drm-next, and continue to refine the internals along the lines of what
> you've posted here in the post-2.6.28 timeframe. 

Nick, in case you missed the plea here, we're asking if you have any
objection to shipping the mm changes present in Eric's patch in 2.6.28.
When your new pageable allocator becomes available, we'll switch over to
using that instead and revert Eric's mm changes.

We're ready to promise to support the user-land DRM interface going
forward, and we've got lots of additional work queued up behind this
merge. We'd prefer to push stuff a bit at a time rather than shipping a
lot of new code in a single kernel release. 

-- 
keith.packard@...el.com

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