Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:06:16 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/20] dma_ops for i386 |
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* Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > Here there is a series of 20 patches that lays the foundations for > using dma_ops in i386 in the very same way x86_64, as well as many > other architectures already do. > > The functions themselves for i386 are placed in a pci-base_32.c, but > just a few among them are actually implemented. Most were no-ops > anyway. > > Also, as I said, this is by no means a complete coverage of dma_ops. > there are still some call sites to be patches in pci-dma_32.c > (although I don't really plan to change them, but to integrate them in > a single pci-dma.c). I intend to have it done progressively. > > The granularity is per-operation, meaning each patch moves one > specific function to the common header. This is compiled-tested in > both i386 and x86_64 in ~5 randconfigs each, and boot-tested in my > hardware with my default configs > > The motivation for that is the ongoing work for pci-passthrough in > KVM. So ingo, avi, what do you think it's the best way to handle these > patches through?
looks very nice to me! I've applied it to x86.git, lets see what happens.
Ingo
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