From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754245Ab0JNMzY (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:55:24 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:48735 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753462Ab0JNMzY (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:55:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:55:19 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, minchan.kim@gmail.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] contigous big page allocator Message-ID: <20101014125519.GB13414@basil.fritz.box> References: <87sk0a1sq0.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20101014160217N.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20101014072421.GA13414@basil.fritz.box> <20101014173103U.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101014173103U.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I think that at least one mainline driver in arm uses such trick but I > can't recall the name. Better to ask on the arm mainling list. Also I > heard that the are some out-of-tree patches about this. I'm sure there are out of tree patches for lots of things, but at least in terms of merging mainline functionality use cases merged in the mainline tree are required. -Andi