Two patches targeted at the next merge window affecting the ioatdma driver (used when NET_DMA and/or ASYNC_TX_DMA+MD_RAID456 are enabled). According to perf the split locking update improves cpu utilization by a few percentage points. --- Dan Williams (2): ioat2,3: convert to producer/consumer locking ioat: convert to circ_buf drivers/dma/ioat/dma.h | 1 drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.c | 184 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v2.h | 33 +++----- drivers/dma/ioat/dma_v3.c | 117 +++++++++-------------------- 4 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 193 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html