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Message-Id: <20081020094441G.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:46:06 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org
Cc:	joro@...tes.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fenghua.yu@...el.com,
	tony.luck@...el.com, suresh.b.siddha@...el.com,
	sfr@...b.auug.org.au, andreas.herrmann3@....com,
	joseph.cihula@...el.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] iommu-2.6.git tree

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:19:58 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:

> The Intel IOMMU appears on IA64 too, and doesn't want to be developed
> and tested off in an x86-specific corner by itself. And I'm going to be
> looking at other generic things we can do to improve IOMMU-related
> performance, which will touch on other architectures too.

Any plan to replace the current rb tree algorithm that VT-d
IOMMU implementation uses with the bitmap algorithm that the rest of
the IOMMU implementations use?

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/4/250
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