From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161106AbXBMH2p (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:28:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751159AbXBMH2p (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:28:45 -0500 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:24002 "EHLO public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751158AbXBMH2p (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:28:45 -0500 Message-Id: <45D17660.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.1 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:27:12 +0000 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Christoph Hellwig" Cc: , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: [IA64] swiotlb abstraction (e.g. for Xen) References: <200702070759.l177xIti030295@hera.kernel.org> <20070207083254.GA24561@lst.de> <20070211072555.GA22831@lst.de> <45D025BF.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20070212171224.GA18430@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20070212171224.GA18430@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>> Christoph Hellwig 12.02.07 18:12 >>> >On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:30:55AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >> As the topic says - the goal is to support Xen. But yes, I was afraid someone would >> claim this make the code look ugly. And no, I currently don't have ideas to address >> any of your comments without breaking functionality on Xen... > >We don't have Xen merged, and it doesn't look like we're going to get it >soon. Also the code is only for dom0 which will take even longer. >At this point I'm pretty sure the code is cleaner, simpler and easier to >maintain if you just split out a xendom0swiotlb instead of messing up >the existing code. We have such a file, and the purpose of the patch was to get rid of it. Jan