Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-06-02 Thread Grazvydas Ignotas
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: >> On 24 April 2014 11:42, Russell King - ARM Linux >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: >> >> I guess I'm after some commitment

Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-04-24 Thread Rob Herring
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Will Deacon wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:22:29AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:46:38PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: [...] >> I'm not sure how to proceed with these patches. I was thinking that >> they could be picked

Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-04-24 Thread Steve Capper
On 24 April 2014 12:03, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: >> On 24 April 2014 11:42, Russell King - ARM Linux >> wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: >> >> I guess I'm after some commitment that thi

Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-04-24 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > On 24 April 2014 11:42, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > >> I guess I'm after some commitment that this is (a) useful to somebody and > >> (b) going to be tested reg

Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-04-24 Thread Steve Capper
On 24 April 2014 11:42, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: >> I guess I'm after some commitment that this is (a) useful to somebody and >> (b) going to be tested regularly, otherwise it will go the way of things >> like big-endian, where

Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-04-24 Thread Will Deacon
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:42:32AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > > I guess I'm after some commitment that this is (a) useful to somebody and > > (b) going to be tested regularly, otherwise it will go the way of things > > lik

Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-04-24 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:36:39AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > I guess I'm after some commitment that this is (a) useful to somebody and > (b) going to be tested regularly, otherwise it will go the way of things > like big-endian, where we end up carrying around code which is broken more > often th

Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-04-24 Thread Will Deacon
Hi Steve, On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:22:29AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:46:38PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > Just a ping on this... > > I would really like to get huge page support for short descriptors on > ARM merged as I've been carrying around these patches for a

Re: [PATCH V2 0/5] Huge pages for short descriptors on ARM

2014-04-24 Thread Steve Capper
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:46:38PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > Hello, > This series brings HugeTLB pages and Transparent Huge Pages (THP) to > ARM on short descriptors. > > Russell, Andrew, > I would like to get this in next (and hopefully 3.16 if no problems > arise) if that sounds reasonable? >