linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] swiotlb cleanups

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Message-Id: <20081228183522O.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:36:10 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tony.luck@...el.com, jeremy@...p.org, joerg.roedel@....com,
	beckyb@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] swiotlb cleanups

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:05:37 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> > This is minor swiotlb cleanups. It depends on the swiotlb highmem
> > patchset:
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomo/linux-2.6-misc.git swiotlb
> 
> thanks, applied them to tip/core/iommu - after Becky's patchset as ported 
> by Jeremy.

Thanks,

The log of tip/core/iommu looks really wired. Two patches claim to add
highmem support to swioblb. Becky completely reverts the Jeremy's and
does in a different way without any description.

As I wrote, I recommend you to reorder the patches. There is no point
to merge Jeremy's highmem patch.

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