Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753905Ab3C0AS3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:18:29 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f52.google.com ([74.125.83.52]:55357 "EHLO mail-ee0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753467Ab3C0AS2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:18:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:21:16 +0100 From: Daniel Vetter To: Andrew Morton Cc: Daniel Vetter , Imre Deak , intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Daniel Vetter Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] lib/scatterlist: sg_page_iter: support for memory w/o backing pages Message-ID: <20130327002116.GJ9021@phenom.ffwll.local> Mail-Followup-To: Andrew Morton , Imre Deak , intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo References: <1364303659-1951-1-git-send-email-imre.deak@intel.com> <20130326145020.GT9021@phenom.ffwll.local> <20130326125742.1aa431a9d406bc53159f27dc@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130326125742.1aa431a9d406bc53159f27dc@linux-foundation.org> X-Operating-System: Linux phenom 3.7.0-rc4+ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1350 Lines: 30 On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:57:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:50:20 +0100 Daniel Vetter wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 03:14:17PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote: > > > When adding sg_page_iter I haven't thought properly through the use case > > > for sg lists w/o backing pages - which is specific to the i915 driver - > > > so this patchset adds support for this. > > > > > > It applies on the i915 tree [1], where the iterator is in use already. > > > > > > [1] git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel [nightly branch] > > > > i915 patches are already included in linux-next, so should apply on top of > > that, too. So can this go in through -mm for 3.10 or should I slurp it in > > through drm-intel trees (once it passes review)? I'd like to ditch the > > dummy page hack we're currently using (i.e. patch 2). > > Please slurp it - there's little benefit in spreading it across two trees. Done, patches should show up in linux-next soon. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/