Re: patch: highmem zero-bounce

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:45:52 +0200


On Fri, Jul 06 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:12:29PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Humm yes, I agree. I'll redo it tonight and send an updated
> > incremental. Hopefully I'll be able to upload a new full version too.
>
> I was going to integrate the avoid-bounce-buffer support but I don't
> find anything recent except the bio patch for 2.5 that you uploaded
> yesterday:
>
> andrea@athlon:~/mirror/kernel.org/people/axboe > find -mtime -1
> ./v2.5
> ./v2.5/bio-14-pre4
> andrea@athlon:~/mirror/kernel.org/people/axboe > find -mtime -25
> ./v2.5
> ./v2.5/bio-14-pre4
> andrea@athlon:~/mirror/kernel.org/people/axboe >

Yes that's all yet, I haven't done a new block-highmem just for 2.4 just
yet.

> The bio patch would better be 2.5 material, I'd prefer only skipping the
> bounce between 1G to 4G in 2.4. Could you make a new patch with only the
> bounce skip between 1G and 4G against pre3?

Will do, but it will probably be after the weekend jfyi.

> btw, the latest bio patch from yesterday is still broken with respect to
> nested irqs:

[snip]

Duh yes thanks for looking at that, it's not surprising as I haven't
taken time to look at this properly yet. That's also why the 2.4 patch
wasn't ready as soon as I would've liked. Thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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