Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757429AbZADWsz (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:48:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751831AbZADWsq (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:48:46 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:57668 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751688AbZADWsq (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:48:46 -0500 Message-ID: <49613CC4.1000000@goop.org> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:48:36 +1100 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: FUJITA Tomonori , beckyb@kernel.crashing.org, jj@chaosbits.net, weiyi.huang@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ian Campbell Subject: Re: swiotlb: remove duplicated #include References: <20090104112541.GA25434@elte.hu> <20090104210420X.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20090104121914.GA30255@elte.hu> <20090104214109A.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20090104130113.GA24506@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090104130113.GA24506@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1595 Lines: 41 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * FUJITA Tomonori 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. J -- 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/