Re: [PATCHv19 00/15] Contiguous Memory Allocator

From: Rob Clark
Date: Sun Jan 29 2012 - 13:09:06 EST


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:31:40 +0000
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 26 January 2012, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
>> > Welcome everyone!
>> >
>> > Yes, that's true. This is yet another release of the Contiguous Memory
>> > Allocator patches. This version mainly includes code cleanups requested
>> > by Mel Gorman and a few minor bug fixes.
>>
>> Hi Marek,
>>
>> Thanks for keeping up this work! I really hope it works out for the
>> next merge window.
>
> Someone please tell me when it's time to start paying attention
> again ;)
>
> These patches don't seem to have as many acked-bys and reviewed-bys as
> I'd expect.  Given the scope and duration of this, it would be useful
> to gather these up.  But please ensure they are real ones - people
> sometimes like to ack things without showing much sign of having
> actually read them.
>
> Also there is the supreme tag: "Tested-by:.".  Ohad (at least) has been
> testing the code.  Let's mention that.
>

fyi Marek, I've been testing CMA as well, both in context of Ohad's
rpmsg driver and my omapdrm driver (and combination of the two).. so
you can add:

Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>

And there are some others from linaro that have written a test driver,
and various stress test scripts using the test driver. I guess that
could also count for some additional Tested-by's.

BR,
-R

> The patches do seem to have been going round in ever-decreasing circles
> lately and I think we have decided to merge them (yes?) so we may as well
> get on and do that and sort out remaining issues in-tree.
>
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