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Message-ID: <20090105131634.GD6014@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 14:16:34 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
beckyb@...nel.crashing.org, jj@...osbits.net,
weiyi.huang@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: swiotlb: remove duplicated #include
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> In a few days, but wanted to hear back from either Jeremy or Becky
>>>> first about how well they actually work in their usecases.
>>>>
>>> Well, you don't need to wait, I think.
>>>
>>> All Jeremy and Becky need is adding highmem support to swiotlb. How
>>> we support it doesn't matter. We can choose better one.
>>>
>>> We all (including Jeremy) agreed that Becky's physical address scheme
>>> is better (simpler) than Jeremy's struct page and offset scheme.
>>> Surely, Becky's scheme works for Xen and him (Jeremy said that he
>>> tested it lightly).
>>>
>>
>> Jeremy said, when he submitted this series, shortly before Christmas:
>>
>> >> Here's a work in progress series [...]
>> >>
>> >> Quick testing showed no problems, but I haven't had the chance to
>> do >> anything extensive.
>>
>> Jeremy, did you have a chance to do more testing with the current
>> tip/master bits on Xen, so that we can push it to Linus?
>>
>
> I'm going to be on vacation until the 12th, so I won't have a chance to
> do anything until then (perhaps Ian will have a chance to poke at them
> before then). I'm expecting Becky's patches to work as-is, or if not,
> be easily fixed with a couple of small bugfix patches. So I say go
> ahead if they work for everyone else.
ok, i have put it into the to-Linus pile.
Ingo
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