Re: [PATCH v7u1 26/31] x86: Don't enable swiotlb if there is notenough ram for it

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Jan 11 2013 - 11:51:51 EST


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:07:10PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> I'm the frontline maintainer of swiotlb and related stuff so if you want to follow
> the proper protocol you should wait until I give you my Ack.

Sure.

>
> I need to check this patch out and then also test-run them on IA64, AMD-VI, Calgary-X
> GART and Intel VT-d to make a sanity test.

that will be great, and please check attached two patches, or you want
to me update
for-x86-boot branch and you test that instead?

but if you want to check memmap=4095M$1M, then will need to test on
newer branch.

>
> However, this particular patch can go outside the mega-patchset you have. So you
> could post the mega-patchset to hpa without this being in it and just mention
> that there is this extra one that Konrad is handling.

Just want to put them together, so in case backporting guys could find
them easier.

Thanks

Yinghai

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