Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 11 May 2009 09:57:57 -0700 | | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] xen: swiotlb support for Xen dom0 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote: > > >> Hi Ingo, >> >> This branch adds the swiotlb hooks for Xen dom0. We use swiotlb >> to handle various device drivers which assume that multipage DMA >> transfers which are contigious in kernel memory are also >> contigious in machine memory (mostly lower-performance devices, as >> high-performance ones already do a good job of scatter-gather). >> >> Following Fujita's suggestion, these changes remove a lot of the >> placeholder stubs in arch/x86/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c and moves them >> into the Xen-specific arch/x86/xen/pci-swiotlb.c. (It still >> relies on overriding the weak functions defined in lib/swiotlb.c.) >> >> The following changes since commit 2af252ab26150b4411889c9eaf1af4c5bf03de78: >> Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1): >> xen: checkpatch cleanups >> > > Would be nice to have a pull request for this with Fujita-san's acks > embedded in the commits, and with a tree based against tip:x86/xen. >
I will regenerate the branch with the acks (and Joerg made some comments which I'll address too).
J
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