From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH 00 of 14] swiotlb/x86: lay groundwork for xen dom0 use of swiotlb Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:48:33 -0800 Message-ID: <494BDE71.5010903@goop.org> References: <20081216203513.GA14787@elte.hu> <20081217142637V.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <4949296F.7000701@goop.org> <20081218015705Z.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20081218210231.GB24271@elte.hu> <3853A0F2-F817-4263-9EF9-9A0655BF95CD@kernel.crashing.org> <494B46E8.1000104@goop.org> <65BDE147-2DF2-4963-B924-7482DE42D655@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <65BDE147-2DF2-4963-B924-7482DE42D655@kernel.crashing.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Becky Bruce Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com, joerg.roedel@amd.com, x86@kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , FUJITA Tomonori , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Ingo Molnar List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Becky Bruce wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> Becky Bruce wrote: >>> >>> >>> Unfortunately, this is horrible timing for me, as starting tomorrow, >>> I'm going to be offline for a week and a half or so in podunk >>> Louisiana with essentially no net access. I can integrate my code >>> into your tree and test on PPC as soon as I return to the real world. >> >> Yeah, I think that's OK. The important thing at this point is to >> determine whether the two patch sets are aligned or conflicting. It >> sounds like they're largely aligned, and so generating a delta from >> my patches to match your needs will be relatively straightforward. >> >> I'm trying to line all this Xen stuff up for this merge window, so >> I'd prefer to revisit it in the next dev cycle. Did you want to get >> something into this merge window? > > I was originally hoping to get something into this merge window, but > the timing just isn't working out for me. The rest of the support is > already in the kernel for ppc (actually, most everything is in > 2.6.28), and swiotlb is the last bit I need to get this working. Ah > well.... I'll hop to work on this from the ppc point of view as soon > as I get back online, and we'll see where that takes us. Hm, yes, they're really very similar patch sets. We can definitely turn this into something that will work for both. J