Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:18:37 +0200 | From | "Vegard Nossum" <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] RCU updates for v2.6.27 |
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> writes: >> >> But yeah, I'll continue to improve it and hopefully get it in better >> shape for next time, especially with regards to SMP support. Maybe we >> can finally have Andrew's review too, if he's not too busy giving all >> these talks and whatnot. Some of the things we've actually fixed up >> since last time include impact on the slab code, >> CodingStyle/checkpatch issues, and the splitting the huge single file >> of code into its own directory to make it more manageable. Oh, and I >> believe 64-bit support is new as well. > > Have the network (or likely general) IO false positives be fixed > yet? That seemed like the largest design misfeature last time I looked. > I suspect it needs integration into the PCI-DMA API.
They haven't.
Integration into DMA API would be really nice (and a quite logical thing to do). I will take a look at it... (Unless you beat me to it with a patch, of course ;-))
Thanks,
Vegard
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