Re: [PATCH v3] fusion: remove dead MTRR code

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:50:40PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > If and when this gets enabled the driver could should split
> > up IO memory space properly and that is quite a bit of work.
> > Just remove the uncommented dead MTRR code then.
> >
> > There are a few motivations for this:
> >
> > a) Take advantage of PAT when available
> >
> > b) Help bury MTRR code away, MTRR is architecture specific and on
> >    x86 its replaced by PAT
> >
> > c) Help with the goal of eventually using _PAGE_CACHE_UC over
> >    _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS on x86 on ioremap_nocache() (see commit
> >    de33c442e titled "x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx,
> >    use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and
> >    pci_mmap_page_range()")
> 
> Hey folks, who's tree should this go through if agreeable?

Hey folks, can this be applied? Thanks.

 Luis
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