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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:28:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALAqxLULe-ZfqRRkhxTg_BsCmfy6_TWsR3ck+Me84THyxHLjGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56AFC9C8.2090904@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2016 10:07 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>>
>> In reviewing the experimental/android-4.4 tree from AOSP, I
>> realized there were a handful of patches to code in the
>> staging/android directory.
>>
>> So I wanted to send these along for review, so if there were
>> no objections they could be queued for 4.6.
>>
>> Let me know if there is any comments or feedback
>
>
> I'm not thrilled about the patches for the cache policy. It certainly
> fixes the problem for x86 but I'd rather see a more unified caching
> approach which would also abstract some of the cache flushing.

Fair enough.

Though I worry that keeping them out of mainline's staging makes it
more difficult to get a proper solution upstream, since it creates
more out of tree variants, which users may have subtle dependencies
on.  But that's more of a general worry then a specific concern here.

thanks
-john

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-01 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-30  6:07 [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree John Stultz
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 1/9] staging: ashmem: Avoid deadlock with mmap/shrink John Stultz
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 2/9] staging: ashmem: Add missing include John Stultz
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 3/9] staging: lowmemorykiller: Fix task_struct leak John Stultz
2016-02-07 22:49   ` Greg KH
2016-02-08 18:50     ` John Stultz
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 4/9] staging: lowmemorykiller: Make default lowmemorykiller debug message useful John Stultz
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 5/9] staging: lowmemorykiller: Trace kill events John Stultz
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 6/9] staging: ion: Set minimum carveout heap allocation order to PAGE_SHIFT John Stultz
2016-02-01 20:23   ` Laura Abbott
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 7/9] staging: ion: Handle the memory mapping correctly on x86 John Stultz
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 8/9] staging: ion: Add X86 dependency for ION_POOL_CACHE_POLICY John Stultz
2016-01-30  6:07 ` [PATCH 9/9] staging: ion: Fix page pool cache policy John Stultz
2016-02-01 21:10 ` [PATCH 0/9] staging: Updates from the Android tree Laura Abbott
2016-02-01 21:28   ` John Stultz [this message]
2016-02-07 22:52 ` Greg KH

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