On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:40:46AM +0200, Micha?? Nazarewicz wrote: > On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:09:05 +0200, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 08:33:50AM +0200, Michal Nazarewicz wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> This patchset introduces a draft of a redesign of Zach Pfeffer's >>> VCMM. >> >> What is a VCMM? > > Virtual Contiguous Memory Manager. The version posted by Zach can > be found at: <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/50090>. > It is an API for managing IO MMU and IO MMU mappings. > >> What is a CMA? > > Contiguous Memory Manager. The v4 version can be found at > <http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=128229799415817&w=2>. It is an API for > allocating large, physically contiguous blocks of memory. > > I haven't expected that anyone who haven't already participated in the > discussion about CMA and VCMM will get interested by this patchset > so I was a bit vague in the cover letter. Sorry about that. > >>> Not all of the functionality of the original VCMM has been >>> ported into this patchset. This is mostly meant as RFC. Moreover, >>> the code for VCMM implementation in this RFC has not been tested. > >> If you haven't even tested it, why should we review it? > > Ignore the code then and look just at the documentation, please. > I wanted to post what I have to receive comments about the general > idea and not necessarily the code itself. Code is just a mean to show > how I see the implementation of the idea described in the documentation. > Because of all that, I marked the patchset as a RFC rather than a PATCH. Oops, I looked at the code, sorry :) greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>