From: Lauri Kasanen Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] drm/ttm: Add optional support for two-ended allocation Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:51:46 +0300 Message-ID: <20140331175146.49a38884.cand@gmx.com> References: <20140331152818.cfcea033.cand@gmx.com> <1396269665.6681.4.camel@weser.hi.pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.20]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C245F6E2EF for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2014 07:51:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1396269665.6681.4.camel@weser.hi.pengutronix.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" To: Lucas Stach Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:41:05 +0200 Lucas Stach wrote: > Am Montag, den 31.03.2014, 15:28 +0300 schrieb Lauri Kasanen: > > Allocating small bos from one end and large ones from the other helps > > improve the quality of fragmentation. > > > > This depends on "drm: Optionally create mm blocks from top-to-bottom" by > > Chris Wilson. > > > You are breaking bisectability here. This patch deliberately introduces > a build failure that you only fix up in the next two patches. This isn't > acceptable, you must squash the following patches in to avoid the > breakage. > > Also if the first patch is from Chris Wilson and you only did some small > changes this should be reflected in the author name of the patch. OK, will squash and resend. Then the changes are mostly mine in the singular patch. BTW, how would I handle the case of a different author, when I cannot use git-send-email due to network mail restrictions? I can't send email from an address I don't own. - Lauri