From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E9F6B004A for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2010 22:36:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 19:34:31 -0700 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [RFCv5 0/9] CMA + VCMM integration Message-ID: <20100907023431.GB11972@kroah.com> References: <20100906210905.GB5863@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Micha?? Nazarewicz Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Daniel Walker , FUJITA Tomonori , Hans Verkuil , Jonathan Corbet , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Kyungmin Park , Marek Szyprowski , Mel Gorman , Minchan Kim , Pawel Osciak , Peter Zijlstra , Russell King , Zach Pfeffer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:40:46AM +0200, Micha?? Nazarewicz wrote: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:09:05 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 08:33:50AM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> This patchset introduces a draft of a redesign of Zach Pfeffer's >>> VCMM. >> >> What is a VCMM? > > Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager. The version posted by Zach can > be found at: . > It is an API for managing IO MMU and IO MMU mappings. > >> What is a CMA? > > Contiguous Memory Manager. The v4 version can be found at > . It is an API for > allocating large, physically contiguous blocks of memory. > > I haven't expected that anyone who haven't already participated in the > discussion about CMA and VCMM will get interested by this patchset > so I was a bit vague in the cover letter. Sorry about that. > >>> Not all of the functionality of the original VCMM has been >>> ported into this patchset. This is mostly meant as RFC. Moreover, >>> the code for VCMM implementation in this RFC has not been tested. > >> If you haven't even tested it, why should we review it? > > Ignore the code then and look just at the documentation, please. > I wanted to post what I have to receive comments about the general > idea and not necessarily the code itself. Code is just a mean to show > how I see the implementation of the idea described in the documentation. > Because of all that, I marked the patchset as a RFC rather than a PATCH. Oops, I looked at the code, sorry :) greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org