Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Mar 21 2007 - 19:45:35 EST


On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:27:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > [1] Though admittedly the one in RHEL deviates from upstream
> > as it contains performance enhancements that were vetoed from
> > upstream acceptance due to it being "deprecated".
>
> What enhancements are they?

Hmm, actually it seems I was mistaken, we didn't merge those after all,
we seem to be shipping what was upstream in 2.6.9/2.6.18.

The patches I was thinking of were a bunch of optimisations for higher
throughput from someone at Intel iirc. Ken Chen maybe?

Dave

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