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DateMon, 05 Jan 2009 09:48:36 +1100
FromJeremy Fitzhardinge <>
SubjectRe: swiotlb: remove duplicated #include
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> 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


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