From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: aik@au1.ibm.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, anton@au1.ibm.com,
paulus@samba.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Generic IOMMU pooled allocator
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:09:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150323190938.GL14061@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150323.150508.149509757161802782.davem@davemloft.net>
On (03/23/15 15:05), David Miller wrote:
>
> Why add performance regressions to old machines who already are
> suffering too much from all the bloat we are constantly adding to the
> kernel?
I have no personal opinion on this- it's a matter of choosing
whether we want to have some extra baggage in the library to support
old hardware, or keep the code lean-and-mean for the future,
where the model has changed.
I'll let others on this list make the call.
--Sowmini
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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: aik@au1.ibm.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, anton@au1.ibm.com,
paulus@samba.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Generic IOMMU pooled allocator
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:09:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150323190938.GL14061@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150323.150508.149509757161802782.davem@davemloft.net>
On (03/23/15 15:05), David Miller wrote:
>
> Why add performance regressions to old machines who already are
> suffering too much from all the bloat we are constantly adding to the
> kernel?
I have no personal opinion on this- it's a matter of choosing
whether we want to have some extra baggage in the library to support
old hardware, or keep the code lean-and-mean for the future,
where the model has changed.
I'll let others on this list make the call.
--Sowmini
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-23 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-19 2:25 Generic IOMMU pooled allocator David Miller
2015-03-19 2:25 ` David Miller
2015-03-19 2:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-19 2:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-19 2:50 ` David Miller
2015-03-19 2:50 ` David Miller
2015-03-19 3:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-19 3:01 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-19 5:27 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-03-19 5:27 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2015-03-19 13:34 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-19 13:34 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-22 19:27 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-22 19:27 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-23 16:29 ` David Miller
2015-03-23 16:29 ` David Miller
2015-03-23 16:54 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-23 16:54 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-23 19:05 ` David Miller
2015-03-23 19:05 ` David Miller
2015-03-23 19:09 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2015-03-23 19:09 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-23 22:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 22:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 23:08 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-23 23:08 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-23 23:29 ` chase rayfield
2015-03-24 0:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-24 0:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-24 1:11 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-24 1:11 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-24 1:44 ` David Miller
2015-03-24 1:44 ` David Miller
2015-03-24 1:57 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-24 1:57 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-24 2:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-24 2:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-24 2:15 ` David Miller
2015-03-24 2:15 ` David Miller
2015-03-26 0:43 ` cascardo
2015-03-26 0:43 ` cascardo
2015-03-26 0:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-26 0:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-26 10:56 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-26 10:56 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-26 22:51 ` David Miller
2015-03-26 23:00 ` David Miller
2015-03-26 23:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-26 23:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 22:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 22:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 23:19 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-23 23:19 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-24 0:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-24 0:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 22:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-22 19:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-22 19:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-22 22:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-22 22:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-22 22:07 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-22 22:07 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2015-03-22 22:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-22 22:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 6:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-23 6:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-23 11:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 11:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-03-23 18:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-03-23 18:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
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