Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758069AbXFKGxT (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:53:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751689AbXFKGxJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:53:09 -0400 Received: from smtp.ocgnet.org ([64.20.243.3]:54945 "EHLO smtp.ocgnet.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750830AbXFKGxI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:53:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:51:45 +0900 From: Paul Mundt To: Dan Williams Cc: Andrew Morton , Herbert Xu , Jan Engelhardt , Mariusz Kozlowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown , "Leech, Christopher" , Jeff Garzik , davem@davemloft.net, Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Message-ID: <20070611065145.GA23404@linux-sh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Paul Mundt , Dan Williams , Andrew Morton , Herbert Xu , Jan Engelhardt , Mariusz Kozlowski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown , "Leech, Christopher" , Jeff Garzik , davem@davemloft.net, Wolfgang Denk References: <20070606020737.4663d686.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200706062132.37430.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> <20070606132439.3f59f0cf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070606212831.GA1534@gondor.apana.org.au> <20070606164202.a3dcd176.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070607070108.GA8013@gondor.apana.org.au> <20070607001218.742c0ba5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 18 On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:01:34PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > Overall, I feel that async_tx is perhaps justifiably receiving the > silent treatment because offload engines are not a mainstream > occurrence. Currently only people with an Xscale IOP or a PPC 440spe > [4] will notice that mainline lacks support for all the features of > their platform. I see async_tx as a nod to the embedded space where > offload engines act to make up for the absence of multi-Ghz CPUs with > streaming SIMD instructions. > For what it's worth, I'm planning on tying in the SH DMA stuff to the dmaengine code, as the async_tx stuff certainly has quite a few bits of interest. This is probably something I won't get around to for 2.6.23 though, due to time constraints. - 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/