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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:42:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070321234236.GD9092@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070321162717.34edb348.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-21 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-18 11:59 [PATCH] Delete obsolete RAW driver feature Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-18 15:57 ` Andi Kleen
2007-03-18 15:38   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-20 16:57   ` Dave Jones
2007-03-20 18:14     ` Alan Cox
2007-03-20 18:47       ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-21 22:19       ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 23:19         ` Dave Jones
2007-03-21 23:27           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 23:42             ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-03-21 23:56               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-22  0:10         ` Alan Cox
2007-03-21 23:13           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-21 23:24             ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-21 23:43               ` Dave Jones
2007-03-22  4:12                 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-22  4:17                   ` Dave Jones
2007-03-22  4:45                     ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-22  5:02                       ` Dave Jones
2007-03-22  5:53                         ` Willy Tarreau
2007-03-22  6:10                           ` Dave Jones

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